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.
By Ryan Crighton Residents living near the site where a north-east peer has launched his fourth attempt to build wind turbines have vowed to fight the scheme once more. Lord Nicol Stephen, a former Liberal Democrat MSP who set up Renewable Energy Ventures after his retirement from Holyrood, has resurrected Read more
Only recently, the offshore wind industry was seen as an opportunity to regenerate Germany’s coast. But amid changing political attitudes and spiraling costs, several companies are struggling to survive. Is the wind boom over before it even really began? http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-offshore-wind-industry-goes-from-boom-to-bust-a-914158.html
The debate about shale gas in the UK can get heated, sometimes overly so. This week, I received an anonymous email saying that unless Cuadrilla ceased its activities in the UK, we would soon receive pipe bombs delivered by express mail to our premises. ‘Fracking kills,’ the message said, ‘and Read more
Ignore fracking protests, government tells planners National energy policy more important than local preferences for renewables, says ministry http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/03/ignore-fracking-protests-government-tells-planners
We could soon be paying billions for this wind back-up The Natioal Grid’s latest plan is taking off into the weirdest scheme yet, thanks to our politicians’ obsession with wind turbines http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/10220083/We-could-soon-be-paying-billions-for-this-wind-back-up.html
by DAVID MADDOX THE unreliability of wind power could mean an independent Scotland would have to import energy from England – leaving it with the highest household bills in the world, it was claimed yesterday. In an interview with Scotland on Sunday, Sir Donald Miller, former chairman of both the Read more
Colin Donald Business Editor Scottish Renewables, the body that promotes the wind-energy industry, has warned that changes in the law making it easier for anti-turbine protesters to challenge planning decisions will cost jobs and investment in Scotland. The group was responding to a landmark case concerning a small proposed development Read more
A couple fighting plans for a wind farm near their rural home have been told they can avoid having to look at the massive turbines – by growing a 17ft-high hedge around their property http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east-news/couple-told-wind-turbines-wont-5581315