By Tim Pauling GOVERNMENT plans to generate all of Scotland’s electricity from renewables have been blown off course – by the summer heatwave. Windfarm electricity output drastically fell away as a high-pressure system – bringing warm, settled weather – dominated the country for weeks. Critics called for a change of Read more
Ian McConnell Group Business Editor GREENCOAT UK Wind, the fund with assets including a 50% stake in the 72-megawatt Braes of Doune wind farm near Stirling, has highlighted “plentiful supply” of further acquisition opportunities. The £262 million fund, which also owns the 6MW Carcant wind farm in the Scottish Borders, Read more
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Environmentalists for years have preached that wildlife and the nature need to be protected. But today to accomplish that aim, they tell us that it’s necessary to industrialize our landscape with skyscraper-size noisy wind turbines. http://notrickszone.com/
Dumfries and Galloway MP Russell Brown has accused Fergus Ewing, Scottish Government Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism of not listening to local concerns over the excessive number of wind farm developments in the region, after it was revealed the Minister would be speaking at a conference in Dumfries later Read more
Protesters at a potential fracking site boasted last night that police could do nothing to prevent them blocking all future attempts to drill for shale gas. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2396623/Were-winning-gloat-anti-fracking-activists-All-drill-sites-risk-police-cave-mob-rule.html
Developers are facing fierce opposition over plans to build the world’s second largest wind farm in the Bristol Channel. By Edward Malnick RWE, a German energy firm, wants to construct 240 offshore turbines, each 722ft tall – more than four times the height of Nelson’s column – to generate 1,200 Read more
It is true that people in the centuries- old village of Beckingham, three miles from the bird reserve, did fear an environmental menace – but it wasn’t fracking. It was the wind turbines so beloved of the protesters in Balcombe. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2396378/50-year-old-fracking-site-makes-mockery-Balcombe-zealots-Its-nature-reserve–fracked-gas-oil-power-21-000-homes-day–complaints-locals.html