GEORGE Baxter’s article gushing over Andy Burnham’s “zero carbon” vision (“Onshore wind blows strong to help cut bills and create jobs”, The Herald, August 8th) is no more than a long-winded bedtime story for green energy zealots. As a director of Greenpower, can he be taken seriously? He celebrates a Read more
Big article in the Herald today. A PIONEERING group that has brought together community councils to unlock and share renewables wealth has expressed fury at the fact it has been bypassed by developers, who are choosing to create alternative benefits deals. The 9CCG (Nine Community Council Group) was first established Read more
Artificial intelligence has fuelled a “significant” surge in objections to some of Scotland’s biggest planning applications and prompted the Scottish Government to stop accepting public responses by email. The rules for consultations on major energy projects were changed in January after an increase in the use of AI in submissions, Read more
Onshore wind projects are facing significant delays because of a constitutional quirk that means Scotland is the only part of the UK where abnormal loads need to be escorted by specialist road traffic police officers. In England and Wales, the UK Government’s National Highways agency performs the role. For that to Read more
DEEPLY controversial plans for a wind farm with turbines higher than London’s Gherkin in an iconic area of Ross-shire look set to spark a formal objection from Highland Council. The Carn Fearna Wind Farm Limited proposal seeks a 50-year permission for nine turbines, the largest of which would have a Read more
Under the Clean Power Action Plan and the connections reform that sits beneath it, only around 700 MW of additional Scottish onshore wind is permitted to connect between 2031 and 2035. Set against more than 10 GW already operating, and a consented pipeline several times larger, in practical terms this Read more
Aileen Jackson (Letters, 27 July) is right to be concerned about the proposed re-powering of Whitelee Wind Farm. Since 2010 Whitelee has received more than £165 million in constraints payments. In the first six months of this year alone it received almost £2.9m for not producing power. In two years Read more
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