Campaigners across Scotland are celebrating an international ruling that could blow future UK onshore and offshore windfarm proposals into the dust. http://www.northern-times.co.uk/News/International-ruling-could-scupper-future-UK-windfarm-proposals-29082013.htm
The Scottish government has rejected plans for a Borders wind farm but allowed condition changes on a Dumfries and Galloway scheme. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-23879091
Campaigners against a community wind farm are said to be “relieved” after the controversial plans were dramatically abandoned last week. http://www.lennoxherald.co.uk/dunbartonshire-news/dunbartonshire-news/dumbarton-news/2013/08/30/114557-33777283/
Hen harriers are at the centre of a row over the methodology used by wind farm developers to estimate bird numbers. http://www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk/news/local-headlines/row-over-wind-farm-harrier-study-1-3064280
THE artist behind the Piper Alpha Memorial is launching a new exhibition of works marking the development of a major offshore wind farm. Sue Jane Taylor, whose bronze memorial in memory of the victims of the North Sea tragedy was opened in 1991, has completed paintings, etchings, drawings and diaries Read more
By Rita Campbell An Argyll grandmother who went to the United Nations to challenge the UK government’s windfarm policy has claimed a notable victory. Representing the tiny Avich and Kilchrenan community council, 69-year-old Christine Metcalfe appeared before the UN’s economic commission for Europe’s compliance committee in Geneva last December. Now Read more
Pinwherry and Pinmore Community Council have expressed their fears about wind farm extension proposals in the area. Residents heard from ScottishPower Renewables earlier this month over its plans for the Markhill wind farm. The community council was unsatisfied at the company’s responses to the its objections as SPR could not Read more
Anyone with a little common sense who’s reading the abstract and the hype about this new paper and the Meehl et al papers will logically now be asking: if La Niña events can stop global warming, then how much do El Niño events contribute to it? http://www.thegwpf.org/paper-blames-ocean-cycle-warming-hiatus/