A MUCH-vaunted financial policy which urges companies behind multi-million pound developments in the Highlands, like wind farms, to pay grants to communities has been dubbed a “spectacular flop”. http://www.ross-shirejournal.co.uk/News/Councillor-slams-white-elephant-Highland-community-benefit-fund-10032014.htm
Heavy industry will be granted more relief from rising energy costs in an attempt to tackle the “clear and present danger” of job losses, Michael Fallon will pledge on Monday. The energy and business minister will admit that costs are undermining the UK’s competitiveness and that current compensation for manufacturers Read more
According to online Spiegel here, a general counsel to the European High Court has ruled that consumers in one country also have to pay green energy feed-in subsidies to producers in foreign countries as well. – See more at: http://notrickszone.com/#sthash.4e2lyWfL.dpuf http://notrickszone.com/
Dutch energy supplier Eneco has bought over the Burn of Whilk windfarm west of Wick as the company grows its Scottish presence. http://www.energyvoice.com/2014/03/eneco-snaps-wick-windfarm/
Older UK readers will remember the green goddesses – fire engines held in reserve for moments of national emergency. At the height of a crisis army drivers would maintain an essential service. Well lo and behold some new green goddesses are to be created as the Government launches its “emergency Read more
DOZENS more wind farms and hydro schemes are to be considered on Scottish forestry, prompting fresh concern that large swathes of trees face the chop. http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/scotland/article1385074.ece
Here are the reasons why the court ruling by a US federal judge that Chevron should not have to pay $9.5 billion in damages to victims of oil pollution in Ecuador is a victory for common sense and justice which we should all be celebrating. http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/03/06/Chevrongate-capitalism-finally-grows-a-pair-in-the-war-on-Big-Green
British coalition politics have been blamed for the scuppering of plans to export wind energy from Ireland to the UK. http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/agribusiness-and-food/tensions-between-british-government-parties-over-energy-policy-blamed-for-wind-deal-collapse-1.1717065