Plans for two wind farms near Duns, with a joint total of 33 turbines all over 130m tall, have not gone down well with Historic Scotland. Both potential wind farms are at early stages; developers haven’t yet submitted planning applications but have requested a scoping opinion, giving Scottish Borders Council Read more
Wil Crisp The government’s push into offshore wind power has created a boom in renegade ship operators that are exploiting workers and putting lives in danger, according to the UK’s largest marine workers’ union. Nautilus has dubbed the sector that operates boats for the UK’s offshore windfarms the “wild west” Read more
The wind industry has long denied that Excessive Amplitude Modulation (EAM) and Low Frequency Noise (LFN) are significant issues. Here is firm evidence for making submissions to LPAs and Public Inquiries that EAM and LFN noise immissions from IWTs have been known to the wind industry since at least 2004….. Read more
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, the world’s largest solar plant of its kind, recently switched on The plants is located on five square miles of the Mojave Desert, near the California / Nevada border State energy officials have released photos of bird with singed feathers from flying into the Read more
Southdean’s Facebook page received record viewings for a photograph of century-old beech trees that a wind farm developer wants to rip out. http://www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk/news/fury-over-plans-to-rip-up-village-beech-trees-1-3304753
Vicky Allan This is a tale of two communities and a wind farm in West Lothian. Main picture: Geraldine Hamilton at her home and, above, Stewart McKenna, Kirknewton Development Community Trust Photographs: Steve Cox One, the village of Kirknewton, is mostly thrilled at the prospect of a new wind farm, Read more
Not heard of Ed Davey? You are forgiven. This fellow may be a Rt Hon, a multiple-red-box wallah, a fellow with a grand private office, spin doctors and attendant lackeys. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2559924/Ed-Davey-From-Quentin-Letts-withering-portrait-Lib-Dem-Minister-week-called-climate-sceptics-diabolical.html
Regulators aren’t keeping up with rapid growth of industry as boat operators ‘ignore safety rules and risk lives of workers’ http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/14/offshore-windfarms-renewable-energy