News Elsewhere contains mainly articles we have permission to republish from Views of Scotland and Country Guardian. You can learn more about these organisations by visiting: http://www.countryguardian.net/ and http://www.viewsofscotland.org/. Occasionally we will also post news from elsewhere on the web.
Plans by a care home firm for a wind turbine over 300ft high at Hawick are drawing flak, with one local councillor calling the scheme ridiculous. http://www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk/news/local-headlines/hawick-nursing-home-s-plan-for-334ft-wind-turbine-1-3269687
The Archbishop of Canterbury is being dragged into a wind farm row as permission is sought for 37 turbines in a woodland owned by the Church of England just north of the Border. The development is planned by energy giant RES for Dykeraw Forest south Chesters village, near Hawick. Twenty Read more
Simon Bain Business Correspondent/Personal Finance Editor I&H Brown, the family-owned civil engineer and developer, lifted its pre-tax profit from £4.3 million to £5.9m last year and believes its substantial land assets will play into Scotland’s housing market recovery. The sale of two farms near Kirkcaldy for Diageo’s new £46m bonded Read more
In the early stages of a new technology, it can be hard to judge the scale of the possible economic benefits, but even so, the potential of tidal energy for Scotland looks impressive. Engineers from Edinburgh and Oxford universities estimate that turbines placed in one stretch of the Pentland Firth Read more
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Residents in Levenmouth barely had time to get used to living with the world’s largest wind turbine when it seemed to be in the process of being dismantled. http://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/local-headlines/it-went-up-and-came-down-1-3268006
“Disposal of blades in landfill”/Protect Wild Scotland http://www.protectwildscotland.org/wind/wind-news/letter-disposal-of-blades-in-landfill/
Giant turbines move in to tower over Loch Ness http://www.protectwildscotland.org/wind/wind-news/giant-turbines-move-in-to-tower-over-loch-ness/