News Elsewhere contains mainly articles we have permission to republish from Views of Scotland and Country Guardian. You can learn more about these organisations by visiting: http://www.countryguardian.net/ and http://www.viewsofscotland.org/. Occasionally we will also post news from elsewhere on the web.
Fears that a Labour “super-majority” might turn our parliamentary democracy into a parliamentary dictatorship are fast being realised. Miliband has picked a fight with rural communities and may be surprised by the strength of the backlash. His latest decisions seem likely to be sent for judicial review, so the taxpayer Read more
It is downright dishonest for developers, the BBC and the media to describe the recently-connected Moray West Offshore windfarm, to a gullible public, as “One of Scotland’s most powerful”. It is the wind that is powerful NOT the turbines! In fact, wind turbines do NOT produce any energy at all, Read more
Science points to a link – but we must stick to the facts https://jasonendfield.medium.com/dead-whales-and-wind-farms-the-scientific-connection-33fa7d2e9bee
Save the whales A mass stranding of 77 pilot whales in Orkney last week followed the large stranding on the Isle of Lewis last year. It is known that on both occasions seismic surveys for offshore windfarms were being conducted off the islands. Dr Andrew Brownlow, Director of the Read more
SCIENTISTS investigating a mass stranding of whales are looking at whether sonar or another acoustic disturbance could have led to the tragic event. A pod of 77 pilot whales died after washing ashore on a beach in Orkney on Thursday. It happened almost a year after a large stranding of Read more
Back in November 2023, a report by electricity commissioner, Nick Winser, stated that to deliver the expansion of renewable energy planned by the then-government, an expansion of grid would be required over the next seven years that would be four times the deployment which had taken place since 1990. But Read more
We were hoping for a date for the ninth Hearing of our petition to the Scottish Parliament before Summer recess but unfortunately that is not to be. There are now so many Petitions that ours is not likely to be heard again until Parliament returns at the beginning of September. Read more
An application to build a wind farm in the Scottish Borders has been rejected for the third time. Scottish Borders Council previously turned down the eight-turbine Wull Muir scheme near Heriot and an appeal to the Scottish government was also unsuccessful in 2020. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1e201r9kro?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2t2kKAneK3P2nPPGb7rysQxDCfNNtjdR5YdWLgQTeCXzFYFd4iFElpLxM_aem_hlcimhIkEMIITaF34BNKOQ