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
Plans have been submitted to erect four masts in Kielder Forest which could pave the way for a windfarm. http://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/local-news/proposal-for-masts-could-lead-to-100-turbine-windfarm-1-5953574
RSPB objects to fracking in Sussex. Swans and Pink Footed Geese may be affected. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/10249079/RSPB-in-fracking-objection-over-bird-reserve-fears.html
For my summer holidays I have been mostly reading Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand has her faults but, boy, was she prescient. One of the things she foresaw was the current nonsensical, dishonest, canting campaign against shale gas http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100231459/shale-gas-is-reardon-metal/
The Church of England has likened vocal opponents of fracking to scaremongers who spread misinformation about the MMR vaccine, leaving children at risk of a measles epidemic. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10248468/Fracking-protesters-like-MMR-scaremongers-says-Church-of-England.html