Costly renewables At last Joyce McMillan accepts that ‘independence is irrelevant until we fix the climate’ (Perspective, October 13). However, it appears that SNP supporters have yet to recognise that ‘Scotland has no massive energy wealth’ since electricity is three times more expensive than gas, hence not only is Read more
Island communities could get cut-price electricity from locally owned wind farms as part of plan for a new nationalised clean energy company. But Torcuil Crichton, the party’s Western Isles candidate, has admitted the task of ditching fossil fuels in favour of renewables will “make building HS2 look like a Hornby Read more
Wind and solar rent-seekers are laughing all the way to the bank, with your money. Subsidising wind and solar operators under the mantle of reaching mythical net-zero carbon oxide gas emissions targets comes with a staggering cost: wrecked communities, wrecked environments and wrecked economies. The cult that drives it all, Read more
Twynholm Community Council is to hold a public meeting on a proposal for a wind farm development partly sited within its boundaries. Seven turbines up to 180m high, plus a network of connecting and access roads, are being envisaged under developers Wind2’s Lairdmannoch Energy Park, The project also includes a Read more
Aileen’s second reply to Elspeth Russell is in the Herald today + another one from Norman McNab Just the tip of the iceberg IN response to Elspeth Russell (Letters, October 11, Would you rather live beside a turbine or a mine) can I say first of all that she is Read more
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“The answer is blowin’ in the wind,” beneath a turbine in a desolate field. Labour’s Shadow Secretary for Energy and Net Zero posted the video online earlier this year from near Mansfield as part of his “tour around wind farms”. The UK’s legal obligation is to achieve net zero by Read more
The claim by Sir Keith Starmer that “the transition to clean British energy means cheaper bills for every family” is incorrect as the Labour leader, just like Leah Gunn Barrett (Letters, 11 October) fails to recognise that, in historic terms, electricity has always been three times more expensive than gas. Read more