Thousands raised after big run and sail around Britain A MAN has completed a mission to sail and run on his own around Britain using only renewable energy and has raised thousands in aid of five charities. Alan Rankin sailed into Ullapool to be greeted by supporters after navigating 2500 Read more
David Ross Highland Correspondent THERE is to be a new subsea power connection from Ayrshire to the Kintyre Peninsula, where along with Arran thousands of homes were without power for four days due to snowstorms in March. Scottish Hydro Electric (SHE) Transmission says it will spend over £200 million to Read more
The ninth Duke, Johnnie Buccleuch, who died in 2007 aged 83, said wind farms were inefficient as well as being a blot on the landscape. But last week his son Richard, 59, the 10th Duke and now the largest landowner in the UK after inheriting most of his father’s property, Read more
The prospect of yet another giant windfarm development in the Ochils has stunned besieged residents. Developers seeking to profit from the renewable energy boom have repeatedly targeted the area for development. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/under-siege-ochils-residents-learn-of-new-windfarm-plan-1.114025
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