Scottish Natural Heritage launched consultation on new guidance for wind farm visualisations on 23rd May and held a workshop at Battleby on 17th June which a representative of SAS attended. There was a good attendance made up of landscape architects, local authority planners, reporters from the Directorate of Planning and Read more
We would like to welcome a new member to the site that will be helping to keep the site up-to-date; Aileen Jackson who set a precedent case in court by having a successful Noise Abatement Order, against a noisy turbine in one of the first cases of it’s kind in Read more
Legal recourse accepted by EU Court of Justice The Court of Justice of the European Union has accepted the recourse presented by the European Platform Against Windfarms (EPAW) (1). The 608 associations composing the platform are hailing this as a first victory in their fight towards holding the European Commission Read more
Scottish Wild Land Group calls for Independent Energy Commission and wild land designation The Scottish Wild Land Group today published a special issue of its magazine, Wild Land News, dedicated to the issue of wind energy. The issue, ‘Wind farms gone wild: is the environmental damage justified?’, calls into question Read more
A Caithness Wind Farm has launched a competition to name a turbine along with a drawing, poem, painting or story to explain the name suggestion. The competition is open to children between 5 to 12 year olds and the competition winners will have a plaque made for each of the Read more
Today the Scottish Government boosted the subsidies for innovative offshore wind generation. A new band set at 2.5 ROCs is aimed at supporting generation from offshore test and demonstration sites deploying innovative, new to market turbines. The second new band set at 3.5 ROCs will be for pilot projects consisting Read more
SCOTLAND AGAINST SPIN comment on Scottish Government decision to refuse Dunbeath windfarm in Caithness Linda Holt, spokeswoman for Scotland Against Spin commented on today’s decision to refuse Dunbeath windfarm in Caithness: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2013/06/Dunbeath07062013 “We applaud Fergus Ewing’s decision today to take the advice of Scottish Natural Heritage and refuse West Coast Read more
Linda Holt, spokeswoman for Scotland Against Spin commented on the story about RES pioneers wind farm compensation scheme for homeowners* as referred to in today’s UK Government announcement on more community benefit for local communities The local energy discount scheme being flaunted by Renewable Energy Systems is another sop to Read more