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Dundee’s port facilities are ready to take advantage of opportunities arising from the offshore renewables sector, bosses say. http://news.stv.tv/tayside/240679-wind-turbines-show-dundee-port-ready-for-offshore-renewables-projects/
Experts 95 per cent certain ‘humans are responsible for global warming’. Well, of course they are. If there is one overriding prerequisite of every new IPCC Assessment report, it’s to sound even more scary and urgent and certain than its predecessor. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100237633/95-per-cent-of-intelligent-people-know-the-new-ipcc-report-is-utter-drivel/
The Bishop of Newcastle, the Right Reverend Martin Wharton, whose diocese in Northumberland includes some of the most dramatic countryside in England, is calling for a moratorium on allowing any more wind farms in the county. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10332173/Wind-farms-are-a-blot-on-Gods-creation-says-bishop.html
[Full judgement at http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/opinions/2013CSOH158.html ] by Neil Riddell A judge has ruled that the Scottish government failed to take proper account of its obligations under a European bird directive in granting consent for Viking Energy’s 103-turbine windfarm. In a lengthy judgement issued on Tuesday, Lady Clark of Calton stated that Read more
David Ross is correct to highlight the dangers of wildfires to the peat stored in Scotland’s uplands, and the evidence of massive damage in the English Peak District over past decades is a warning (“Peat wildfires are linked to climate change”, The Herald, September 24). As our climate changes, Read more
by Nick Butler Ed Miliband’s comments on energy in his Labour party conference speech on Tuesday have profound implications for policy. The immediate focus will be on the suggestion of a price freeze lasting until 2017. The industry will no doubt focus on the implications of cutting profits and the Read more
A JUDGE has decided that the Scottish Government failed to take proper account of its obligations under a key piece of European nature legislation when it gave the go-ahead for a huge wind farm development. Developers secured consent for the building of a 103-turbine scheme on Shetland known as the Read more
A long-delayed undersea cable to the Isle of Lewis looks set to be snuffed out after government proposed insufficient support for Scottish island wind generators. http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/news/news_story.asp?id=199307&title=Scottish+island+wind+boost+%27not+enough%27+for+embattled+Lewis+link