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Members of Belford Parish Council have voted to object to plans for a nine-turbine wind farm to the west of the village. http://www.berwick-advertiser.co.uk/news/local/all-news/residents-fears-on-wind-farm-sway-council-1-3213945
Wind farms were inflicted on Britain by Tony Blair in one of his evangelical insights – and this myth was sustained by the SNP Government with its target of 100 per cent renewables by 2020. http://www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk/news/dealing-a-blow-to-the-taxpayer-1-3212700
PROPOSALS for two huge wind turbines on land to the south of Crossgates will be presented at a meeting in the village tomorrow. Airvolution Energy Ltd are looking at erecting 131-metre high towers at a site near Woodlee, which is east of the M90 and west of the B981 Read more
Judge Rules that Falmouth Must Reduce Wind Turbines Hours of Operation. Court Finds Nearby Homeowners Suffer ‘Irreparable Physical and Psychological Harm’ BARNSTABLE (Nov. 22) In a major victory for homeowners living near a wind turbine in Falmouth, Barnstable Superior Court Judge Christopher J. Muse issued a preliminary injunction today to Read more
Ed Davey, UK’s Energy Secretary, said that he could not guarantee the rest of the UK would continue subsidising Scottish renewables as set out in the White Paper. Last night Labour accused the SNP of putting Scotland’s renewables potential ‘at risk’. The paper said that after independence it would be Read more
Farmers could earn more than £50,000 a year renting out their land as sites for large-scale solar-power farms. http://www.energyvoice.com/2013/11/developer-launches-hunt-scottish-large-scale-solar-sites/
Like Anthony Watts, I have only recently discovered the best, funniest and truest ever thing written about Climategate: an hilarious essay, published in 2009, by author Michael Kelly. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100247973/why-climate-change-is-still-far-too-important-to-be-left-to-scientists/
A free home insulation scheme for poorer households will be kept but implemented more slowly as part of a package of measures to cut fuel bills, the BBC has learned. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25132843