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PLANS to erect thousands of wind turbines across the midlands to export power to the UK have been shelved, the Irish Independent has learnt. http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/proposals-for-giant-wind-farms-are-shelved-30071008.html
Liberal Democrat energy secretary attacks Conservative climate change sceptics and tells them to ‘shut it’. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/liberaldemocrats/10679703/Ed-Davey-Tory-climate-sceptics-need-to-shut-it.html
A new report published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation shows that the best observational evidence indicates our climate is considerably less sensitive to greenhouse gases than climate models are estimating. http://www.thegwpf.org/oversensitive-ipcc-hid-good-news-global-warming-2/
I am sure the latest “official” statistics which show the “typical” Scottish household energy bill to be only £9 per month more than those in England are a serious underestimation (“Scots spend £9 more on energy”, The Herald, March 4). Highlands and Islands Enterprise’s minimum income standard research published in Read more
Scottish Power, SSE, EDF and E.ON warn Alex Salmond his green energy targets risk being missed if he presses ahead with extra protections. By Simon Johnson, Scottish Political Editor Four of the country’s largest energy companies have piled pressure on Alex Salmond to abandon planning changes that would make it Read more
Copenhagen/Hamburg: A Danish study that cost the taxpayer more than €2.6 million and supported by the freeloaders of the wind power, led by world’s largest wind turbine manufacturers Vestas, Siemens, and Vattenfall in Denmark, is to provide for a smooth and unobstructed process for wind turbine projects – without any Read more
Leading UK small wind turbine manufacturer Gaia-Wind Ltd, today announced the appointment of Sales & Marketing Director John Gallacher to the Board of Gaia-Wind as Director. http://www.farminguk.com/news/New-Man-Hoisted-on-Board-for-Gaia-Wind_28508.html
Drysdales, the vegetable processing business at Cockburnspath, will be in a position to produce its own energy after planning consent was given for two 77.9m turbines. http://www.berwickshirenews.co.uk/news/local/all-news/vegetable-processor-s-wind-power-1-3329386