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.
When Ed Miliband, leader of the UK’s opposition Labour party, promised in September to freeze energy prices if he won the country’s next general election, it caught Britain’s business elite by surprise. It should not have done. In stark contrast to the US, where gas prices fell to 10-year lows Read more
The government should not continue to inflict upon us increases in costs for heat and light on the basis of a poor hypothesis Sir, The Blair/Brown governments’ head-in-sand policy on long-term energy security delivered us into Vladimir Putin’s hands, and Ed Miliband as Energy Secretary greatly increased our “green” taxes. Read more
Friday, May 20, 2011 In April, six Scottish wind farm companies were paid £300,000 (US$485,000) to shut down generation. The problem? Over a two-day period they were producing too much electricity. UK wind power groups were cock-a-hoop. At last, a good news wind energy story not built on the quicksand Read more
Matt Ridley Pride in our offshore wind farms is wildly misplaced. They are costlier than all other forms of energy Here’s a short quiz. Question One: which source of energy is allowed to charge the highest price for its electricity? Question Two: which source of energy is expected to receive Read more
Families struggling to cope with rising energy bills face more misery after one of the UK’s leading utilities warned that environmental taxes would trigger even higher prices. The scale of the problem was underlined when the Red Cross announced that it will collect and distribute food aid in Britain this Read more
The John Muir Trust has called for a Public Local Inquiry into the proposed 34-turbine wind farm on wild land at Glenmorie, straddling the Sutherland/Easter Ross border to be “sisted” (put on hold) pending key legal and political decisions which could have a decisive bearing on the hearing. http://www.northern-times.co.uk/News/John-Muir-Trust-ask-for-Glenmorie-inquiry-to-be-put-on-hold-14102013.htm
Ed Davey says he was on the verge of agreeing a £50billion investment in new nuclear power, which could drive bills even higher But he blames bills increasing on the rise in the cost of wholesale gas on international markets Green levies are set to rise to £270.30 by 2020 Read more
THE new body set up at Newtown to review planning decisions at the behest of disgruntled and rejected applicants faces an early and significant test. – See more at: http://www.bordertelegraph.com/news/roundup/articles/2013/10/14/474633-unswerving-swedes-lodge-turbine-appeal-amid-floodgate-fears/#sthash.u0YGdeql.dpuf http://www.bordertelegraph.com/news/roundup/articles/2013/10/14/474633-unswerving-swedes-lodge-turbine-appeal-amid-floodgate-fears/