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By Jane Candlish A SENIOR councillor has warned that the Highlands will soon run out of room for windfarms. But the chairman of the local authority’s planning committee rejected campaigners’ calls for a moratorium on turbine schemes and said that was simply not an option. Thomas Prag spoke out amid Read more
LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron once dog-sledded across a shrinking Norwegian glacier to showcase his concern for global warming. Now, environmentalists say, his pledge to lead a new era of the “Green Conservative” is in danger of melting away. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-britain-era-of-green-conservative-withers/2013/11/01/2a0ea2fe-424f-11e3-b028-de922d7a3f47_story.html
Germany, Europe’s biggest power market, is poised to open its first new coal-fired plants in eight years, just as prices slump because of a glut of electricity. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-04/merkel-facing-power-dilemma-as-coal-plants-open-energy-markets.html
Government defeated by 237 to 193 in vote to amend energy bill that could mean plants are forced to cut down gas emissions http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/04/house-lords-coal-power-stations
A RURAL Black Isle community which remains defiant against a fresh attempt to establish a wind turbine close to their homes will hold a public meeting this week to discuss the latest application for a smaller structure. http://www.ross-shirejournal.co.uk/News/Revamped-Black-Isle-turbine-plan-still-gets-the-wind-up-objectors-03112013.htm
Gas and nuclear plants capable of powering every UK household on hold because of government policy dithering, industry claims http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/10423981/Gas-and-nuclear-plants-that-could-power-all-UK-homes-on-hold.html
Councillors have backed an earlier decision made by officials to reject plans for a wind turbine east of Haddington. In May, local authority officers turned down JK Playfair and Sons’s bid for a 34.2-metre-tall turbine at Abbey Mains but the matter then came before the council’s Local Review Body last Read more
ONE of the “big six” energy companies appears to have structured its accounts to minimise profits and therefore reduce its tax liabilities, according to an investigation by Channel 4’s Dispatches programme. An analysis of accounts filed in 2012 by German-owned Eon showed that it borrowed more than £6.4bn from other Read more