Maybe it’s the energy sector equivalent of trickle-down economics but I’m not impressed by the crumbs we’re getting from the renewable energy table. Green power is a remarkable bounty and I want to know where our fair share is. Recently, I saw both Labour/Tory East Lothian Council and the SNP/Green Read more
Twelve huge wind turbines would unacceptably impair the outlook between a far north stretch of the NC500 and the sea, according to Highland Council’s landscape officer. Anne Cowling has joined scores of residents of Armadale in opposing the plans drawn up by Brookfield Renewables UK Ltd. The company is bidding Read more
SCOTTISH Borders Council (SBC) has chosen not to raise any objections to a proposed new wind farm earmarked for land a few miles outside the region. The global energy company Renewable Energy Systems (RES) has now submitted a planning application to Dumfries and Galloway Council in support of the Bloch Read more
A Caithness community councillor has claimed it would be “complete madness” for Marine Scotland to approve an offshore wind farm near Dounreay. David Craig, of the Caithness West Community Council (CWCC), is concerned that consent for the Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm would lead to radioactive particles in the seabed Read more
A vast area of peatbog in Scotland’s Flow Country could become one of Unesco’s newest World Heritage sites. But why do some people believe the landscape deserves the attention? Heather Jardine was a girl when the machinery arrived to carve up the ground on hills around her home in Sutherland Read more
Onshore wind turbines are providing an “alarming” threat to Scotland’s endangered birds of prey, new research has warned. Some 33 raptors, including ospreys, golden eagles and peregrine falcons, have been killed as a result of collisions with onshore wind turbines in Scotland since 2019. NatureScot, which compiles the records, confirmed Read more
Wind farm fears as SNP ministers admit they don’t monitor ‘toxic’ leading edge erosion Energy minister Michael Matheson also admitted that no wind farm operators have been fined for failing to maintain their turbines and there is no scheme in place to monitor microplastic pollution A Scots Tory MSP has Read more
Two nuclear power stations crucial to keeping Britain’s lights on risk being closed next year as a result of Jeremy Hunt’s windfall tax, their French owner warns today. EDF, which operates all five of the country’s serving nuclear plants, said the Chancellor’s raid on power producers will make it harder Read more