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A peat slide at a site close to one of the UK’s largest onshore wind farms has caused permanent environmental damage, experts have said. Dave Petley, an expert in geological hazards and vice-chancellor at the University of Hull, said it would cause lasting damage. “This landslide was not large by Read more
We haven’t heard much from Struan Stevenson lately but he has written a good article about peat slides in the Herald today. https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/24345475.shetland-peat-slide-ominous-warning/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1bD1_zSwePnypLcTAQvCS1jSyJsLbA9TcWYxsa1OFWzJj80IU89ga4fTA_aem_ATyQqloXIPExgkx-RvetVl3yVc5sj5JUc64vRtLBnVkxE-683xbLQD7m273HAH1LNvoJioWLvQl7V5vi8IMP8vpu
Wind energy is an environmental destruction machine, warns veteran center-left columnist. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and its communist block satellite countries in 1989, the West stood in awe, amazed by the environmental and economic wasteland left behind by the inefficient collective socialist system. But since then, green Read more
Important and welcome information in regard to ‘Time limited consent’ (most windarms). Normally, it is stipulated in planning conditions that development must commence within 3 years of award of consent.(Occasionally an appplicant can get an increase to 5 years awarded by Scottish Ministers or a Local Authority) Commencement of a Read more
COUNCIL chiefs will object to plans for a proposed wind farm on the Kintyre Peninsula, it has been decided. The Scottish Government, on behalf of Energiekontor, has consulted with Argyll and Bute Council on plans for the facility south of Campbeltown. But councillors expressed concerns over the visual impact, along Read more
One objection of Dr Richard Dixon (Scotsman 22 May) to small modular nuclear reactors (SMRS of 300 MW base load capacity) apparently is that they would take up the area of all of two football pitches (about 3 acres). The equivalent in wind turbines of 2MW (load factor about 30 Read more
National Grid is to install as many as 6,000 electricity pylons across the English countryside as part of plans to invest £31bn in the nation’s transmission networks. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/23/bill-payers-to-fund-30bn-net-zero-overhaul-of-national-grid/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0Td8Qv54DxlhhIl7pZ22eLX-PBvKbb3GjQW1cUrTYZbXfPwsUFQ621L_U_aem_AUIjYC2A-Y_-Gv6qvqyw-BOmgeZwmTbCVMvEX0nlAK2yYAoGe0RhhDJ4Dzw18khEu0RyKyVWaQHKbez_BuWTx36e
Scotland will need to install one new offshore turbine every day to stop jobs being lost in the Just Transition, a new report has found. The paper by academics at Robert Gordon University’s Energy Transition Institute warned that “political choices” risked hampering the UK’s prospect of retaining industry jobs and Read more