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.
It is with a mix of excitement and real sadness that I’ve just booked my traditional week in the Cairngorms, the same last week of February that’s been a highlight of my annual calendar for a decade. Being one of those who’s seen as a mobile snack-bar for the dreaded Read more
A GREAT-GRANDSON of Winston Churchill is leading a battle to save his corner of the English countryside from solar farm developers. Jack Churchill, 38, has launched the Wake Up Wiltshire campaign in his home village of Seend. It is situated near farmland where energy firms want to erect hundreds of Read more
FAMILIES face power cuts at Christmas and New Year because the Government has failed to allow for the predicted Arctic weather, according to the UK’s leading energy supply expert. Professor Ian Fells fears a bitterly cold winter will push the National Grid beyond breaking point when demand for electricity peaks. Read more
Local authorities are missing a massive £200 million from the funds they need to clean up the mess made by 32 opencast coal mines across central Scotland, a Sunday Herald investigation has revealed. According to informed industry sources, the cash set aside by two major coal companies before they collapsed Read more
It has long been obvious that by far the most delusional element in the Government’s shambles of an energy policy is how it subordinates all else to an obsession with building thousands of hopelessly inefficient and absurdly oversubsidised windmills. This is now only made worse by George Osborne’s bid to Read more
Here’s some weapons-grade drivel from the Government’s Environmental Audit Committee. (Whose chairman, contrary to my earlier assertion that it was Trougher Yeo, turns out to be some MP you’ve never heard of called Joan Walley) Globally, subsidies for fossil fuels exceed $500 billion a year. They are inconsistent with the Read more
MPs have voted to reject an amendment to the Energy Bill introduced by the Lords to limit emissions from old coal-fired power stations. Under the proposed change the plants would have been subject to Emissions Performance Standards – which will apply to any new build power stations – unless they Read more
Under pressure from the wind-power industry, the Obama administration said Friday it will allow companies to kill or injure eagles without the fear of prosecution for up to three decades. The new rule is designed to address environmental consequences that stand in the way of the nation’s wind energy rush: Read more