A SPANISH owned green energy giant has pulled the plug on plans for a ‘trailblazing’ Scottish hydrogen plant after receiving almost £10million of taxpayers’ money. ScottishPower was awarded £9.4million from the UK Government towards the first-of-a-kind hydrogen storage and refuelling plant at Whitelee Wind Farm in Eaglesham almost four years Read more
Councillors are being advised against raising an objection to a proposed wind farm despite acknowledgement of its “significant” visual impact on a Berwickshire village. Scottish Borders Council’s Planning & Building Standards Committee will next week consider an application for the Ditcher Law Wind Farm on land north, south and west Read more
DUMFRIES and Galloway Council’s planning committee has backed a recommendation to refuse a windfarm application in Galloway. And it was music to the ears of the ‘Hands Off Our Hills’ protestors who gathered outside the council’s HQ yesterday morning to demonstrate against the proposal for the Glenvernoch Wind Farm from Read more
Scotsman letters Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right when she says we must continue to drill for oil in the North Sea. Modern civilisation depends on oil and gas production. Marine gas oil for all the ships at sea – container ships, warships, fishing boats, dredgers, tankers, crude carriers, Read more
OPPONENTS of plans for a new wind farm in Cowal are encouraging Inverclyde residents to make their voices heard on the proposals before it’s too late. The Save Cowal’s Hills campaign group (SCH) wants the developers behind the proposed Giant’s Burn wind farm to extend the deadline for representations on Read more
Both Labour and the SNP are super-keen on renewables, but while voters might still be persuaded about a rosy future for wind power, ministers in both parties would be mad to sneer at Trump’s words about North Sea oil and gas being a “treasure chest” for the UK. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/07/31/donald-trump-wind-farms-ed-miliband/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMg1sdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHp0b8VftSxuIvDTSG9drTj-CNBxKCGgHlDUrdZi3XLH9i76kF-nEq5GZHYZ4_aem_7DUaPg6aL_51KUepI-0d0Q
An urgent request has been made to extend the deadline for comments on the Giants Burn wind farm plan. The proposal would see seven turbines on a site near Dunoon and Sandbank, five with a blade tip height of 200 metres and two with 180-metre blades. It was formally submitted Read more
A British wind farm owned by France’s state energy company is being paid to throw away half of the power it generates. The Dorenell onshore wind farm in Scotland, owned by EDF, had 50pc of its output “curtailed” in 2024 because the UK’s national grid was too congested to accept Read more