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by SCOTT MACNAB PLANS to create a new energy department for an independent Scotland which will be co-headquartered in Aberdeen and Glasgow have been unveiled by First Minister Alex Salmond. It will have a staff of about 300 across both centres, with the aim of capitalising on the experience of Read more
Carolyn Churchill CONSERVATIONISTS have welcomed a “major U-turn” by an energy company, which has withdrawn plans for a wind farm that was to be the subject of a public inquiry. SSE said yesterday it would no longer apply to build the Dalnessie wind farm in Sutherland. It is also dropping Read more
The creation of a wind turbine at Bonnykelly near New Pitsligo would cause “unacceptable interference” for radar. That’s the blunt message from Aberdeen International Airport which says that the introduction of an additional turbine in the area would create unacceptable clutter on radar screens. Applicant Roy Mathieson of Elgin has Read more
Kelso community councillors did not object to plans for a wind turbine on an industrial estate because they thought it was for a local factory. At last week’s February meeting of Kelso Community Council, members discussed the planning application for a 67m turbine on a site close to the Border Read more
Tim Webb A planned expansion of the world’s largest wind farm has been abandoned because of the impact on the local population of red-throated divers. The developers behind the £1.9 billion London Array had intended to add 100 turbines to the 175 already fixed to the seabed off the Kent Read more
There are many interesting questions one can raise about how climate scientists and economists model both climate change and the human contribution to it. But I’m not going to discuss any of those here. I’m going to take as a given that global warming does exist and has many accepted, Read more
MILITARY chiefs may have opened the floodgates to scores more windfarm schemes in the north and north-east by upgrading their radar systems. The days of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) trying to block planning applications for new turbine developments in Aberdeenshire and the Western Isles could soon be at an Read more
A CONTROVERSIAL wind-turbine project – in a national scenic area, on land owned by a conservation body – has been given planning permission. The application by a community group to build the single turbine on moorland near Achiltibuie on the Coigach coast attracted more than 600 objections and messages of Read more