George Herraghty hits the nail on the head (Letters, 24 July) with his criticism of the crushing Scottish Power Renewables (SPR) plan to repower the Whitelee wind farm. For local residents who had hoped to live long enough to see the landscape returned to its former glory, this is devastating Read more
Scotsman letters So, after only 20 years, the everso-sustainable Scottishpower Renewables Whitelee wind farm, sorry subsidy farm, has already reached the end of its short life (your report, 23 July). The owner’s claim that fewer larger turbines are more efficient is breathtaking, and shame on the Scottish government for falling Read more
The UK’s largest onshore wind farm is set to double in capacity as part of a £1.5bn project which could create hundreds of jobs. Under the plans announced by ScottishPower on Wednesday, Whitelee Wind Farm could generate enough energy to power the equivalent of 650,000 homes – more than double Read more
Developers have dropped plans for what would have been one of the biggest wind farms in the Borders just a few weeks before a public inquiry was set to start. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjrv2089gq2o?fbclid=IwY2xjawTNWZBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe6vWh1vuMjBLLMfz-6IHb1HeVRVtHJRoQxTqiNzFOuPAAmD_xI5BOBNXghRE_aem_6nqTjS2YKM44VNdHjVzFUA
SAS quoted in the Mail on Sunday and the Express today. Scots are being ignored after opposing massive wind farms being built in their communities in the SNP Executive’s rush to hit net zero. A leading government minister even admitted that he has received no notes of support for [any Read more
The Scottish Government has brought in new statutory guidelines which are supposedly to improve the compensation measures for adverse environmental and ecological effects of off shore windfarms. Providing adequate compensation for effects such as the killing of seabird populations has apparently been a ‘barrier’ to getting consent for off shore Read more
MPs are being urged to back North Sea oil and gas to help the UK meet its climate obligations as well as boosting jobs, communities, and the economy. Energy industry leaders, trade union bosses and others have joined together in open letter to Labour MPs which insists that “support for Read more
Industry insiders fear the grid operator Neso’s plan will bypass Scotland’s offshore pipeline, putting investment in floating wind farms at risk SNP ambitions to inject £96 billion of cash into Scotland’s renewables sector are in jeopardy, with warnings that a new energy blueprint being prepared for Westminster will bypass lucrative Read more