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EEF and Tata Steel warn benefit of shale gas in attracting businesses to the UK is many years off, while urgent action is needed to address rising energy costs http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/10595626/Fracking-too-late-to-help-businesses-facing-rising-green-energy-costs-manufacturers-tell-Prime-Minister.html
Germany is set to become the first nation in Europe to charge owners of renewable energy plants for their own use of electricity, part of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s effort to contain rising power bills. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-01-24/germany-first-in-europe-to-tax-consumer-use-of-renewable-energy
An ongoing battle over an Interior Department rule-making that allows wind-energy producers to kill bald and golden eagles without prosecution has created a rift between environmental advocates and the wind industry. http://www.nationaljournal.com/daily/wind-permits-allowing-eagle-deaths-face-blowback-20140123
Tim Yeo chairs Common energy and climate change committee Has previously called for ‘bribes’ for communities to accept wind farms But he has joined campaign against plans in his South Suffolk seat http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2545393/Tory-MP-champions-wind-farms-joins-campaign-against-turbines-Suffolk-constituency.html
A renewable energy firm has resubmitted a planning application for a nine-turbine wind farm in Midlothian. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-25880210
Planning consent has been granted for two renewable energy projects that will benefit local communities in Fife and the Highlands. http://news.scotland.gov.uk/News/Renewable-projects-approved-88e.aspx
THE Scottish Government has approved plans for a new 20-turbine wind farm and a new biomass plant. Ministers have approved the two renewable energy facilities in the Highlands and Fife respectively. The wind farm at Moy, near Inverness, will be developed by Eneco Wind UK and have the capacity to Read more
A poll of residents in a Black Isle community facing Ben Wyvis has shown the vast majority are against a wind farm development because it would “obscure and corrupt” their view of the iconic mountain. The results of the email and door-to-door surveys around the Culbokie area has prompted Read more