Kinross-shire Civic Trust chairman Alistair Smith extended an invitation to Scotland Against Spin to join them on their Trust stand at the Kinross Show. Not an opportunity to be missed team members turned up with SAS displays and literature and spent a very busy day engaging with visitors to the Read more
We are posting this on behalf of www.saveyourregionalpark.co.uk, please share with your networks. ————– Dear All PLEASE FORWARD THIS E.MAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, RELATIONS AND COLLEAGUES ETC IN THIS COUNTRY AND ABROAD This is to let you know that there is yet another windfarm application lodged in Read more
On hearing today’s news that SSE is launching a new panel, headed by Scotland’s former first minister Lord McConnell, to oversee around £90m in community funding for areas the company is developing wind farms in, I looked up SSE’s annual report. Great news for shareholders; really bad news for electricity Read more
SAS was delighted to support the official launch of Scientific Alliance Scotland at the Holyrood Hotel in Edinburgh on 27th June. Scientific Alliance Scotland is a new think-tank, (allied to its parent organization, the Scientific Alliance in Cambridge), which has the aim of bringing scientific, evidence-based thinking into policy-making. Scottish Read more
Anti-wind farm campaigners across Scotland are celebrating Fergus Ewing’s decision to refuse the Druim Ba windfarm near Loch Ness. Following a long, expensive and hard-fought campaign, they are delighted that Fergus Ewing has finally agreed with the Public Inquiry Reporter, with Highland Council and with hundreds of objectors that the Read more
The group representing pilots who provide aerial support during bushfires wants an investigation into whether wind turbines affect fire-fighting. The Aerial Agricultural Association of Australia has written to the Federal Government with concerns about the turbines. Chief executive Phil Hurst says the main concern is whether they create a turbulence Read more
Residents in a village in Cumbria are claiming a nearby windfarm is causing flooding and drying up natural water supplies. Pete Johnston’s home in Gilcrux, has been flooded since the Tallentire windfarm was built and he believes the concrete and roadways which replaced the farmland are preventing water being absorbed Read more
Scotland Against Spin is pleased to announce a major national anti-wind protest which will take place on October 19 2013. Building on last year’s successful march and protest outside the SNP conference hall during Alex Salmond’s keynote speech, this year’s event will be bigger and better than ever. In the Read more