Responding to today’s DECC announcement on onshore wind subsidies, Graham Lang, chair of Scotland Against Spin, a national alliance of groups and individuals which campaigns for reform of Scottish wind policy, said: “We are delighted the Conservative Government is sticking to its promise to end the ludicrously generous subsidies for Read more
Renewable power could soar from just over a fifth of global electricity generation today to nearly a third Wind, solar and other types of renewable power will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity in just 15 years if the pledges countries are making for a global Read more
The Scottish Government’s Geothermal Energy Challenge Fund has awarded almost quarter of a million pounds to five feasibility projects to investigate how the thermal energy in the ground can be used to heat homes and businesses. http://www.scottishenergynews.com/green-light-for-scotlands-first-five-geothermal-feasibility-projects/
Mark Latham Deputy Business Editor When it was reported two weeks ago that the UK Government would fulfil its manifesto promise to curtail subsidies for onshore wind farms by bringing forward the closure of a generous subsidy scheme, green energy firms threatened to sue and the Scottish Read more
Rob Edwards THE Duke of Buccleuch lobbied the Energy Minister, Fergus Ewing, and government officials behind closed doors to fast-track a £1 billion plan for one of Scotland’s biggest-ever wind farms, according to internal documents obtained by the Sunday Herald. In a “private and confidential” presentation last November, Buccleuch’s chief Read more
THE owners of Britain’s largest onshore wind farm will be accused this week of contaminating private water supplies to dozens of homes in west Scotland. A public inquiry to consider five new turbines at Scottish Power’s Whitelee wind farm will be shown evidence that tests of drinking water taken after Read more
Views which inspired a series of Turner watercolours are under threat Plan by dairy farming brothers for two ‘monstrous’ 160ft tall wind turbines Would be on countryside neighbouring Harewood House in West Yorkshire They claim if plans blocked they face financial ruin, blaming supermarkets http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3123179/A-monstrous-blot-Turner-s-landscape-Dairy-farmers-provoke-fury-wind-turbine-plan-say-forced-supermarkets-milk-price-squeeze.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
The West of Scotland Archaeology Service has added its voice to those objecting to Bute Community Power’s plans for two wind turbines on the island. http://www.buteman.co.uk/news/community-news/archaeologists-object-to-bute-turbine-plans-1-3800692