We received a reply from the Scottish Government to our Petition to the Scottish Parliament today to which we will be making a response. They have agreed to undertake work “to explore the benefits and disadvantages of altering the 50MW threshold, and explore the scope for planning authorities to determine Read more
Scottish Borders Council has decided not to object to a wind farm it first opposed nine years ago The project would see 12 turbines built at Cloich Forest near Eddleston A report said changes to national planning guidance meant the benefits outweighed the negatives of the scheme https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czk8kzle2d2o
Energy secrecy The article by Michael Sturrock on independence (Scotsman, 17 April) contained not a single reference to the cost of implementing a Just Transition in Scotland by 2045. The Climate Emergency Review Group paper estimated the cost of a Green Revolution at £150 billion, the price of fitting Read more
The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), together with the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), recently published their 2022 report on “Disaster in Numbers”. On its front cover, the report deceptively suggests that the 387 reported disasters, the Read more
Community Windpower is calling on the UK government to urgently engage with the renewables industry to avoid legal action linked to its Electricity Generator Levy (EGL). The EGL, designed to target “extraordinary profits”, applies to revenue above a threshold of £75/MWh despite the “breakeven” rate for a new onshore wind project Read more
SHIP safety concerns have been raised as the concession, which allows cheap foreign labour to replace British workers in servicing Scotland’s green revolution, comes to an end. The Herald on Sunday can reveal that the Home Office says there will be no extension of the Offshore Wind Workers Concession (OWWC) Read more
All the hype by government and the media about reducing CO2 emissions to ‘save the planet’ doesn’t overcome the fact that there is no consistent correlation between increasing atmospheric CO2 levels with enhanced global temperatures. Any dumb scientist can clearly see this when they look at a graph recording the Read more
In the bustle of the brewery shop in Aviemore, Sam Faircliff is trying her best to stay positive. It’s hard, she admits, because for months she’s been suffering from a sense that politicians and civil servants in distant Edinburgh are intent on putting her out of business. “They’re just not Read more