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It is appalling that SSE’S Viking wind factory in Shetland is being hailed a success. This unspeakable environmental tragedy is trashing the Shetland landscape forever, yet the island’s importance to birdlife could hardly be overstated. Goodbye whimbrel. To remind readers, planning officials, the RSPB, Scottish Natural Heritage, the Scottish Environmental Read more
Full list attached. CfD Allocation 6th round results
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Ed Miliband’s flagship wind farm has already been paid close to £2.5 million to keep its turbines switched off, The Telegraph can reveal. Mr Miliband, the Energy Secretary, praised the Viking wind farm in the Shetlands, which officially opened on Thursday, saying “hundreds of thousands of homes” across the country Read more
Pricey experiment Alistair Carmichael’s article “The £1bn bill to stop turbines turning is scandalous waste,”(Perspective, 30 August) raises the issue of constraint payments to energy companies. The pricing of energy has become very complex and these prices are dominated by the price of gas, which the UK government linked Read more
POWER station operator Drax has agreed to pay a £25 million penalty after the energy watchdog found it failed to report accurate data on the sourcing of wood pellets it burned at its North Yorkshire plant. Ofgem carried out a 15-month investigation into the company over data that profiled the Read more
Please remember to read our article on wind farm polls which shows how they get these results! https://scotlandagainstspin.org/2022/04/the-sham-of-those-pro-windfarm-polls-the-conservative-woman/ There is enthusiastic support across Scotland for building the transmission infrastructure the UK requires to reach net zero, according to new polling released today by Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce. The Read more
Calls for climate policy debate will only grow as economic reality bites ever harder, writes Paul Wilson Some adherents will continue to insist, with straight faces, that renewables are somehow cheaper than the alternatives. And the argument will, of course, still be made that the human race faces certain oblivion Read more