An application for two temporary met masts for a wind farm being lined up for the Dava Moor has been rejected. The Ourack Wind Energy Project is planned by Swedish state owned company Vattenfall around six kilometres north of Grantown. Members of Highland Council’s South Area Planning Applications Committee meeting Read more
The study found that 42 per cent of people support fracking Peter Byrne/PA Ben Webster Environment Editor More people support fracking than oppose it, according to a survey commissioned by Greenpeace. The group, which is campaigning against fracking, tried to bury the inconvenient result in a footnote of Read more
An emotive new video highlighting the plethora of giant wind turbines spreading in hills circling Loch Ness has attracted hundreds of views within hours of going online. https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/inverness/538134/video-new-footage-shows-giant-wind-turbines-across-loch-ness-hills/
THE Beinneun Wind Farm has been granted planning permission to extend its site nine miles west of Loch Ness to include an additional seven turbines up to 136 metres tall. http://www.highland-news.co.uk/News/Highland-Council-grants-01042015.htm
Plans have been lodged for a wind farm in the Scottish Borders less than a year after the Scottish government rejected a scheme for the same site. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-32148433
Mark Williamson Group Business Correspondent ECOSSE Subsea Systems has said oil and gas business has slowed following the fall in the price of crude but work in the renewables sector has been compensating. The Aberdeenshire-based firm, which specialises in work like seabed clearance, said it had already suffered Read more
By Sam Durkin Retired couple Christine and Sandy Millar should be sitting with their feet up – but instead they’re battling both cancer and a proposed wind farm development near their dream home. From living their dream – to a living hell. That’s the message from cancer-striken grandmother Christine Millar, Read more
Do mountain-lovers in the rest of the UK realise how quickly Scotland’s wild land is disappearing? With a windfarm the size of Perth possibly about to be built next to the Cairngorms, we spoke to David Gibson, head of the Mountaineering Council of Scotland, about what his organisation are doing Read more