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.
Public servants are drawing up plans to collapse 33 climate change schemes run by seven departments and eight agencies into just three bodies run by two departments under a substantial rewrite of the administration of carbon abatement schemes under the Coalition. The move is forecast to save the government tens Read more
The RSPB has come out against fracking and urged the government to ‘rethink its shale gas policies’. And of course the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds would know. After all when your skill set ranges from identifying Little Brown Jobs through your binoculars at 10,000 yards all the Read more
Almost 70 golden and bald eagles have been killed by wind farms in the last five years Wind association officials and conservation groups are trying to reduce casualties http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2417943/Wind-farms-kill-67-eagles-years.html
The Scottish Government has a clear strategy for renewable energy that links with other policy areas, and it has made steady progress so far. Achieving its overall goals will be challenging and depends on private sector investment. http://www.audit-scotland.gov.uk/work/all_national.php
By Paul Reoch A windfarm developer has appealed a decision by Perth and Kinross Council to refuse its application for a nine-wind turbine development it claims will bring £22.5 million of investment into Strathearn. The controversial proposal submitted by Force 9 Energy for the site at Mull Hill, Abercairney Estate, Read more
Torrential rain and weather warnings were not enough to stop a large group of people walking along the shores of Loch Urr on Sunday to highlight their anger at the proposed wind farm development by EON. Residents from many communities, including Moniaive, Corsock, Dunscore, Dalry, Gelston, Penpont, Thornhill, Ringford, Kirkpatrick Read more
Turbines planned for the Helensburgh community wind farm are too big, according to a report by council planners. The report says the scale of the proposal, especially in relation to turbine height is “unlikely to be appropriate for this location and may result in very significant adverse landscape and visual Read more
Gordon Brown MP has met local campaigners protesting against the construction of wind farms at the Blairadam Forest and Outh Muir. The protesters, from SPOT Fife, a group of West Fife residents who came together in 2011 because of a concern about wind farm applications, have campaigned over two adjacent, Read more