A windfarm comprising 22 turbines of up to 125 metres in height could be proposed for the border of Angus and Perthshire. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/angus-the-mearns/firm-reveals-early-plans-for-windfarm-in-glen-isla-1.124316
The Hadyard Hill wind farm near Dailly was closed down for a period earlier this month. http://www.carricktoday.co.uk/news/local-headlines/hadyard-hill-has-to-constrain-power-output-1-3063086
A team of prominent German climatologists finds that global warming stopped fifteen years ago, in stark contrast to computer models and New York Times predictions of climate change calamities. Friends of Science say climate change computer models used in IPCC reports are not a reliable basis for climate change policies; Read more
The coalition is heading for a bitter new row over green energy as senior Tories seek to unpick carbon targets which stand in the way of Britain building more than 40 gas-fired power stations. http://www.thegwpf.org/uk-government-abandon-unilateral-co2-ttargets/
By James Delingpole Politics Last updated: August 27th, 2013 Personally I don’t believe in banning words – but I do believe in intellectual and moral consistency. You’d never hear an organisation as eggshell-treadingly right-on as the BBC use pejorative terms for Jews or black people or homosexuals or sufferers of Read more
Tribunal warns that the Government acted illegally by denying public participation Margareta Pagano Plans for future wind farms in Britain could be in jeopardy after a United Nations legal tribunal ruled that the UK Government acted illegally by denying the public decision-making powers over their approval and the “necessary Read more
Drax is spending £700 million on converting half its six units to burning biomass such as wood, instead of coal Tim Webb Coal plants are needed to prevent blackouts by backing up wind farms when the wind does not blow, according to the chief executive of Britain’s largest power station. Read more
Developers have received payments of £19 million not to generate electricity from wind farms Paul McGee/Getty Images/Flickr Tim Webb Published at 12:01AM, August 26 2013 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 Read more