ROSYTH families have slammed Fife Council’s plans to stick a wind turbine at Park Road Primary/Rosyth Public Park as “ludicrous”. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/rosyth/articles/2014/04/09/494223-rosyth-kids-face-playing-under-27metre-wind-turbine/
I READ the Scottish Government’s “demolition” of the Westminster Government’s ramshackle and dysfunctional electricity generation policy (“SNP: give us big say on energy or lights will go out”, The Herald, April 7) as did Sir Donald Miller, but I find his intervention (Letters, April 8) on the report a red Read more
David Leask and Michael Settle The UK has moved to block Scotland taking part in a European Commission investigation into No 10 plans to subsidise a new nuclear plant in England. A UK minister has warned his opposite number at Holyrood that any representation to Brussels on controversial plans to Read more
It is no longer “environmentally friendly” to have “giant” turbines in the countryside, a Conservative minister has said, as he indicated that the Tories will pledge to curb onshore wind power in their manifesto. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/10752424/Wind-turbines-are-no-longer-environmentally-friendly-says-Tory-chairman.html
Household energy bills would increase by hundreds of pounds in an independent Scotland to cover the cost of subsidising the country’s wind farms, the UK Government will warn. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/10751780/Ed-Davey-Scottish-independence-will-add-hundreds-of-pounds-to-energy-bills.html
It has emerged that 150 jobs are likely to be lost at energy giant SSE’s headquarters in Perth. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/energy-price-freeze-will-see-150-jobs-go-at-sse-headquarters-in-perth-1.307120
Technique of burning biomass then pumping released carbon underground included in leaked draft from UN climate panel http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/07/ipcc-report-sucking-carbon-air-climate-report-biomass
Wind power in the U.S. is on a respirator. The $14 billion industry, the world’s second-largest buyer of wind turbines, is reeling from a double blow — cheap natural gas unleashed by the hydraulic fracturing revolution and the death last year of federal subsidies that made wind the most competitive Read more