We have had an appeal for help from Save the Pentlands Working Group on behalf of folk fighting against another application for yet another wind farm in West Lothian. The clock is ticking towards the 18th May after which no further objections will be accepted. They are desperate for more Read more
Dear Supporters, Some of you may remember the story late last year about Helen Douglas, the Perthshire hill shepherdess who took up the cudgels for the Scottish wildcat against a wind farm developer at Tullymurdoch. Tullymurdoch is one of the last remaining territories for a species which is on the Read more
One summer evening I was walking through long grasses on the face of the hill opposite my cottage. A striped wildcat kitten shot from underneath my left foot. The only other occasion I have seen a live wildcat, she was sunning herself in a hollow. I watched her through binoculars Read more
Please consider completing this survey to support SAS’s aspirations on planning reform. DEADLINE: 23 December This survey/consultation is part of theScottish Government’s preparation for its upcoming Planning Bill (2017), which it considers Community Engagement to be an important part of. We all know about community engagement with wind farm developers Read more
Please note below are the notes Linda Holt used for her interview with BBC Scotland today. It will be used in an upcoming feature on Scottish Power who are working their socks off erecting turbines to grab as much ROC subsidy as possible before the March 2017 cut-off date, and Read more
A Community Council in the Scottish Borders is expressing outrage and disbelief that a local planning officer is now recommending support for a larger version of a controversial windfarm that Scottish Borders Council objected to ever being built. Scottish Borders Council was one of several groups that objected to the Read more
The Trust has called for a genuinely independent study on the impact of industrial scale wind farms on tourism in rural communities and wild land areas, disputing a recent paper which claimed that wind farms don’t impact on tourism. Douglas Wynn, former academic and senior consultant and recently elected John Read more
Author: Dr Stuart Paton is an adviser to the oil and gas industry and former chief executive of Dana Petroleum. Reforming Scotland: This is the latest in a series of individual contributions to the publication, ‘Reforming Scotland’, which aims to set out a possible vision for Scotland’s future which can Read more