THE SCOTTISH Government is facing legal action after an 11-year breach of international law through a failure to have a public right of challenge over decisions that would damage the nation’s precious environment, landscape and wildlife. A coalition of campaign groups from Planning Democracy, Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland, Friends Read more
Installation of offshore wind turbines must double or even treble if the UK is to meet a key target by 2030, according to a new report. http://dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2022/09/call-to-cut-planning-time-to-hit-offshore-target/?fbclid=IwAR0YG3q5MD_FJrOlzvqr1KadUAYxKeIIibIVUrEhs5WQnxZXrpu4UyAHQq8
Atom Kraft? Nein Danke, as the stickers said on crumbling 2CVs. My parents drove a VW, but they were dedicated anti-nuclear campaigners who refused to differentiate between civil and military uses of nuclear power. We were doomed either way. I inherited much of their instinctive prejudice against all things nuclear. Read more
Turbines ahoy I was fishing this week at Cobbinshaw Reservoir, which is the compensation reservoir for the Union Canal. It is situated just south of West Calder. As we approached we could see the wind farm with six turbines just south of Pates Hill and we could also see Read more
Largely unseen by the outside world, a transformation has been taking place in the remote Kintyre peninsula on the west coast of Scotland. And it is not over yet. Funded by international power companies and one of the biggest corporations in the world, nine wind farms have already been built Read more
THE UK’s energy crisis has been in the making for more than 20 years and is the result of the incompetent policies of Mr Blair, Mr Brown, Mr Cameron, Mrs May, and Mr Johnson, and all their hapless energy minsters and advisors too numerous to name. https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1663771/energy-bill-energy-cap-cost-of-electricity-gas-are-renewables-more-expensive-Putin-gas
Two energy industry trade bodies have backed a plan to ensure that older wind and solar farms return some of the massive windfalls they are getting amid hugely inflated electricity prices. Energy UK said households across Britain could save up to £18 billion under the plan, or £250 per household. Read more
Energy rationing ‘very possible’ for the UK, Kathryn Porter, energy consultant at Watt-Logic said Lack of wind could ‘leave us vulnerable’ due to replacement of thermal/ nuclear generation with renewable Much of Northern Europe has had similar low wind conditions, restricting ability to import from elsewhere Liz Truss last night Read more