Come to unspoilt Scotland. Not. Over the last year or so, I’ve been getting emails from two campaigners – Irish engineer Pat Swords and Christine Metcalfe, a retired community councillor from Argyllshire – urging me to report on their campaign to have Britain’s and Ireland’s renewable energy policy declared illegal Read more
Scots author Alexander McCall Smith has blasted wind farms and vowed never to put them on his desert island getaway. The best-selling author claims wind turbines ruin Scotland’s landscape and could spell disaster for tourism. The mystery writer, best known for his series The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Read more
Tim Webb The amount of potential electricity from onshore wind farms that has been allowed to go untapped has more than doubled this year because the grid cannot cope. Developers have received payments of £19 million not to generate 215 gigawatt hours enough electricity to supply nearly 50,000 households Read more
By Richard Watt A windfarm comprising 22 turbines of up to 125 metres in height could be proposed for the border of Angus and Perthshire. Edinburgh firm the Wind Prospect Group has submitted a scoping application to Angus Council for a development at woodland on Knockton Hill, Glen Isla. Knockton Read more
By Laura Paterson Anti-windfarm campaigners have accused an energy giant of trying to manipulate the planning process to build more turbines in the Highlands. SSE Renewables has a 20-turbine windfarm at Fairburn in Ross-shire, but wants permission for a further 12 turbines just over half a mile away. Instead of Read more
THE chairman of ice cream and renewable energy business Mackie’s has highlighted some of the key lessons he has learned that have helped the business prosper over four generations of family ownership. Maitland Mackie underlined the importance for family businesses to embrace change in a speech at the University Read more
It used to be trendy to join protests against new motorway extensions. So-called environmentalists climbed trees and set up camps to block the bulldozers. Now, the latest focus for the green protesters and their celebrity backers is shale gas. Anti-fracking groups are mobilising across the UK, feverishly protesting that shale Read more
EXECUTIVES at British Polythene Industries have warned high energy costs in the UK are putting the company off making major capital investments in its domestic market. http://www.heraldscotland.com/business/company-news/bpi-warns-energy-costs-are-deterring-uk-investment.1377683192