Laois County Council has refused planning permission for the construction of eight wind turbines just outside Mountmellick. In February last year Statkraft Ireland sought planning permission for eight wind turbines measuring 185 meters in height and a 110 meter high meteorological mast in the areas of Dernacart, Upper Forest and Read more
The Scottish Greens manifesto is not good news for Edinburgh. The Pentlands Special Scenic Area would no longer be protected from wind farms, only National Scenic Areas and two National Parks. The party would “Require all private sector homes to meet at least Energy Performance Certificates C at the point Read more
‘It’s Scotland’s wind!’ the next SNP war cry now that oil has become an ecological affront? It’s Scotland’s wind! I don’t expect we’ll see that slogan from the SNP in future elections (or referendums) as oil figured in the 1970s one, before it began to run out and also become Read more
(Reuters) -BP Plc is preparing to bid for the rights to build wind farms off Scotland, The Times reported https://bit.ly/3t821vv early on Monday. BP Chief Executive Officer Bernard Looney told The Times the firm was looking at bidding in the forthcoming Crown Estate Scotland auction to lease the seabed off Read more
Recently received under FOI from the Scottish Government.
The Cairngorms National Park is in danger of becoming surrounded by a ring of steel, one of its planning committee members has warned. The park authority’s committee agreed not to object to two proposed wind farms at locations scores of miles apart – in the Monadhliaths and in Moray – Read more
THE SNP have allowed Scotland’s renewable energy industry to be “hollowed out” and jobs have “gone oversees”, according to one Scottish politician. In a furious rant to the BBC’s ‘Any Questions?’ yesterday Murdo Fraser MSP slammed Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon for misleading the public on Scotland’s renewable energy industry. Read more
FORTUNE, as the old saying goes, favours the brave. When ScottishPower moved into renewables generation more than a quarter of a century ago, the technology was very much in its infancy and its economic future uncertain. We are now in an entirely different energy universe. Renewables are literally powering our Read more