By Katie Pavid Giant wind turbines are to be transported through Dundee on the way to Aberdeen on oversized lorries. A new access road has had to be constructed at the top of Strips of Craigie to allow contractors to haul their huge load over the roundabout. The lorries will Read more
By Chris Bryant in Frankfurt In the idyllic southern Bavarian community of Wildpoldsried, 2,600 villagers are diligently playing their part in a bold experiment in German renewable energy generation, known as the Energiewende. The shift away from nuclear power and fossil fuels is Germany’s most complex undertaking since reunification two Read more
There are several possible responses to the climate change controversy, some reasonable and some not. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2420871/MAIL-ON-SUNDAY-COMMENT-These-climate-fanatics-cloud-debate.html
Global warming is just HALF what we said: World’s top climate scientists admit computers got the effects of greenhouse gases wrong http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2420783/Global-warming-just-HALF-said-Worlds-climate-scientists-admit-computers-got-effects-greenhouse-gases-wrong.html
THE owner of a five-star tourism business in an isolated Wester Ross peninsula has launched a scathing attack on plans to build a community-owned wind turbine which he says is an “absolute violation” of the landscape. http://www.ross-shirejournal.co.uk/News/Ross-turbine-plans-an-absolute-violation-claims-Coigach-businessman-15092013.htm
Colin Donald Business Editor, Sunday Herald Siemens, the dominant supplier of turbines to the UK’s onshore and offshore wind market, is to expand its operations in Scotland by establishing a new projects and construction hub in Livingston, the Sunday Herald can reveal. The company, which already employs 600 people Read more
ONE of Scotland’s most senior environmental campaigners has declared his support for independence. Dr Richard Dixon, the director of Friends Of The Earth Scotland, said he will vote yes for independence in next year’s referendum. The 49-year-old said: “I am still listening to both sides, but I’m at the stage Read more
WIND power on Scotland’s three major islands is to be given a boost by ministers in an effort to make it less costly to send renewable energy to the mainland. Energy Secretary Ed Davey will announce today that the guaranteed price for wind power in Orkney, Shetland and the Read more