A firm anti-windfarm campaigner has questioned the feasibility of relying on wind energy to meet Scotland’s electricity needs after government statistics suggest that windfarms may not be the answer. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/scotland/msp-claims-figures-show-fundamental-flaws-of-green-energy-policies-1.114023
Seven years ago, pulled along by huskies, David Cameron visited a Norwegian glacier. Vote blue, he implored, and go green. One year later Kevin Rudd became Prime Minister of Australia after identifying climate change as the “greatest moral challenge of our time”. Climate change campaigners interpreted his victory as one Read more
Britain’s dirtiest coal power stations are to be allowed to bid for hundreds of millions of pounds’ worth of subsidies that could allow them to stay open well into the 2020s. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/consumers-to-pay-dirty-coal-power-subsidies-for-years-8724925.html
By Ashleigh Barbour – Press & Journal RAF chiefs fear pilots’ lives are being put at risk by the number of windfarms being built in the Moray area. Papers lodged with the Scottish Government show military top brass are worried that turbines are jeopardising the safety of fast jets returning Read more
Siew Peng Lee Five wind turbines taller than the Forth Bridge could go up on the edge of Blairadam Forest. REG Windpower has applied for an environmental impact assessment for the 110-metre (361ft) turbines at Outh Muir, located between the forest and Knockhill racing circuit. The plans include 20 parking Read more
New research from the United States indicates that bird deaths from wind farm collisions may have been underestimated by up to 30 per cent. http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/channel/newsitem.asp?c=11&cate=__14606
The John Muir Trust has lodged an objection to a major wind farm extension on core wild land in South Lewis famed for its golden and white-tailed eagles. As well as endangering these rare birds and industrialising the core wild land area of Eisgein (as mapped by Scottish Natural Heritage), Read more
Long-running plans for a £4m wind farm at Milnathort have been blown off course by councillors. A report before Perth and Kinross Council’s development management committee recommended the refusal of the three 74m-high turbines on land at Tillyrie Hill. And a number of residents made deputations for and against the Read more