A report written by Stuart Young in collaboration with Dr G. Lindsay on behalf of the Scoentific Alliance has been produced challenging the assertions made by WWF regarding wind energy power generation, and how the energy produced enough power for all of Scottish Households. Wind Turbines alone generaetd as estimated Read more
We have a quick urgent appeal from Save Straiton for Scotland; WilloWind have lodged an Addendum to Linfairn Wind Farm and, although they have reduced the amount of turbines, this proposal would still brutally dominate the Girvan Valley as shown below. Over 6,000 objections were raised before and all of Read more
You will all remember Aileen Jackson’s Petition calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to consider a change in planning regulations to enable an increase in the current neighbour notification distance of 20 metres in relation to wind turbine planning applications. http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/GettingInvolved/Petitions/turbineneighbournotification In response to the petition, Read more
Admin Note: Posted on behalf of the John Muir Trust Our newest film Stop Stronelairg is here – and we wanted to share it with you first. Wild places are part of our heritage and treasured landscape. We depend on them for clean air and water, and for health and Read more
East Ayrshire Council has recently been criticised in a complaint, which was mostly upheld, regarding the manner that they handled a planning application for a 15 industrial turbine wind farm (details below). Report number: 201204546 Date: October 2014 Body: East Ayrshire Council Sector: Local Government Keywords: Handling of planning application Read more
The Scotland Against Spin newsletter has just been published and is being sent out to subscribers. As part of our new services, whenever a newsletter is published, we will publicly release the last newsletter for those that are not subscribers, so they can still access all the wind farm news Read more
We have recieved an email (published below) from residents on Helensburgh making an appeal for objections. The Helensburgh wind farm application has reached a critical moment. If you have not already objected, could you do so? And fast. Thanks. Argyll and Bute Council has announced that the deadline for representations Read more
The above video visualisation was produced by Maclolm Kirk on behalf of Save Cowal’s Hills. The scheme as currently proposed would be for either 15 gigantic 145m(475’) high turbines, or for 20 110m (361’) turbines, set on the hilltops from Kilbride Hill south to Garrowchorran Hill (above Innellan). We will Read more