Hannah Smith Renewable energy technologies like solar, wind and hydro are Scotland’s largest source of electricity. They provide more of our electricity that coal, gas and nuclear, and displace the equivalent of the emissions from every car, van, bus and train in our country every year. But renewables, just like Read more
By Kirsty McIntosh Plans to almost double the number of wind turbines on a Perthshire hillside have been branded “an extension by the back door”. An application has been made to build a windfarm, named Green Burn, on a site near Bridge of Cally. However it would lie just 1,200 Read more
I WISH to congratulate the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) for scrapping the Feed in Tariff (FIT) scheme’s pre-accreditation element which provided developers with a financial security blanket for their hare-brained micro and mini- hydro schemes (“Subsidy rules hit hydro projects”, The Herald, October 19). We should scrap Read more
Ian Johnston The Government’s plan to end on-shore wind subsidies next year was in doubt after it was defeated in the House of Lords, in a move that could spark further hostilities between David Cameron and peers. The Lords backed a Labour amendment deleting a clause in the Energy Bill Read more
By Liz Rougvie A proposal to create the first community windfarm of its kind in Scotland on farmland near Strathkinness has run into opposition. Edinburgh-based Temporis Wind has lodged an application with Fife Council for three 46m shrouded turbines on land at Claremont Farm. The land is owned by Read more
The Review aims to achieve, a quicker, more accessible and efficient planning process in order to build investor and community confidence in the system. The review will focus on 6 key issues. Development planning; Housing delivery; Planning for infrastructure; Further improvements to development management; Leadership, resourcing and skills; and Community Read more
By Kirsten Robb and Maggie Chapman The mothballing of the Lanarkshire Tata Steel plants is a disaster for communities already scarred by severe job losses in the 1980s and 1990s. Almost all commentators see closure as the inevitable conclusion of the move to mothball. It threatens to remove some of Read more
I HAVE enormous sympathy with the steel workers who have lost their employment (“Tata Steel axes 270 jobs and mothballs Scots plants”, The Herald, October 21, and Letters, October 22). But the real villain here needs to be identified; that is electricity prices, 40 per cent of the cost of Read more