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The Fife-based project to build and test the world’s largest wind turbine has reached a milestone after the machine’s blades turned for the first time. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/business/news/blades-turn-on-world-s-largest-turbine-for-the-first-time-1.253438
One fifth of all homes in Perth and Kinross are being targeted this week as part of an unprecedented effort to oppose windfarm development. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/campaigners-aim-to-mobilise-thousands-in-fight-against-windfarms-in-perthshire-1.253310
Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania said in a joint statement that the EU’s 2030 carbon goal should take into account UN climate deal in 2015. http://www.thegwpf.org/eu-member-states-call-delay-climate-targets-2015/
Estimates of Cuadrilla’s shale gas resource in the North West of England may have to be increased significantly upwards. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26440101
Scenic parts of Highland Perthshire are in danger of being “dominated” by windfarms, planners have been warned. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/msp-fears-highland-perthshire-landscape-could-be-dominated-by-wind-turbines-1.251447
Four of the country’s largest energy companies have piled pressure on Alex Salmond to abandon planning changes that would make it harder for them to build wind farms on wild land. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10677208/Energy-giants-oppose-wind-farm-wild-land-ban.html
Scotland’s first ever strategy for the historic environment has been published. The strategy sets out, for the first time, a vision of how our historic environment can be understood, valued, cared for and enjoyed. http://news.scotland.gov.uk/News/Strategy-paves-way-for-Historic-Environment-a03.aspx
Kate Devlin UK Political Correspondent A LEADING Ukip member has stood down as his party’s economic spokesman after he was branded a hypocrite for striking wind-farm deals on his Scottish estates. Professor Tim Congdon agreed the contracts with SSE in Argyll and E.On Renewables in Caithness, the Sunday Herald revealed Read more