Landscapes around the Cairngorms and in Fife could be “hammered with windfarms” under fresh Scottish Government energy plans. Leading mountaineering journalist and broadcaster Cameron McNeish has warned there is a “great danger” the Cairngorms National Park could soon become “ring-fenced” with turbines. While Fife-based Scotland Against Spin chairman Graham Lang Read more
Changes to the planning system to be introduced by the SNP-Green administration will relax the rules for new and expanded wind farms, which many campaigners say are already too loose. The final draft of the Fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4), said to be the “most important” in 75 years, will Read more
The bid to have the height of turbines at a windfarm development in the Glenkens increased is heading to Holyrood. Energiekontor UK has lodged an appeal with the Scottish Government over its planned development at Glenshimmeroch near Dalry. It comes after the council failed to make a decision to increase Read more
I attach two more spreadsheets. They represent the position on S36 applications and scoping response as at 31st December although the application on Scawd Law (which was lodged just before Xmas) wasn’t available to view until early this year. although I don’t normally keep earlier versions after they have been Read more
Communities living near new onshore wind turbines and solar farms should be given 100 per cent discounts on their energy bills, Tory MPs have said. The 1922 backbench committee on business, energy and industrial strategy has recommended a tiered system to provide an incentive and compensate people for renewable energy Read more
Our thanks to Stephen Lucking for his latest stats on constraint payments. I attach two documents setting out the latest data on this issue. One is a spreadsheet and the other a short word document. Obviously the figures vary with wind speeds but when these are low and constraint Read more
A wilderness on the Isle of Skye has become the latest battleground in a bitter debate over the impact of wind turbines on Scotland’s most spectacular landscapes. Proposals for 53 turbines, each with a height of 200 metres (685ft), at Ullinish Glen in the northwest of the island, will turn Read more
Pumped up Green MSP Patrick Harvie has admitted that his back-of-a-fag-packet plan for the replacement of domestic fossil fuel heating systems may not be suitable for 40,000 rural homes. Mr Harvie is in for a big shock in the coming years. He is about to find out that a significant Read more