An SNP MP is attempting to change the law to block councils from ordering public inquiries into windfarms and power line schemes. Alan Brown, the party’s energy spokesman at Westminster, sought to add a clause to the UK Government’s new energy bill that would strip councils of the right to Read more
Hypocrites Climate Camp Scotland has said that the protest camp set up near the Ineos Kinneil terminal in Grangemouth will be Scotland’s biggest protest encampment for a decade (your report, 13 July). Did the demonstrators from India, Netherlands and Ukraine arrive by bike? What about the others? As usual, Read more
IAN Blackford’s excitedly-trumpeted “Roadmap for a Scottish Green industrial Strategy” (“Ian Blackford: Roadmap for a green industrial future for Scotland”, heraldscotland, July 14) flies in the face of what he said before he was elected. It is simply going to help Big Energy industrialise the Highlands against the will of Read more
A closing submission on a controversial pylon project has been blocked from publication by the Scottish Government because it may contain offensive material. SP Energy Networks lodged its summary justifying construction of the Glenlee-Tongland overhead line section of the Kendoon-Tongland Reinforcement (KTR) with the planning and environmental appeals division (DPEA) Read more
The Business, Enterprise and Industrial Strategy Committee (BEIS) published its Eleventh Report of Session 2022–23, Decarbonisation of the power sector (HC 283), on 28 April 2023. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero supplied a response on 27 June 2023. Responsibility for scrutiny of Government policy on energy has Read more
Tax chasm David Alexander’s article (“Green housing policies threaten supply of homes”, 13 July) outlined the capital costs of a heat pump system but did not extend to to the operating costs. As electricity is expensive (four times that of gas) then annual energy bills will rise above current Read more
Scottish firm Forsyth of Denny has started decommissioning ScottishPower Renewables Hagshaw Hill wind farm after 30 years of operation. Work is currently under way to disassemble the turbines and prepare the land for the repowering of Scotland’s first commercial wind farm. The decommissioning process will continue over the summer and Read more
We were disturbed to read a post on our Facebook page this afternoon from Paul Swift of Galloway without Pylons. It further emphasises how important it is that the SAS Petition to the Scottish Parliament should succeed, particularly part three of the Petition which requests: appointing an independent advocate to Read more