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New Clearances Alison Campsie’s illuminating article about Danish Billionaire “Anders Povlsen and the changing the face of a Highland village” (Scotsman, 21 December) prompts a number of personal observations. Knowing Tongue and the surrounding area well, I can’t help thinking that his quiet, sensitive stewardship and care for the Read more
SAS in the Sunday Post.
Some of Scotland’s biggest ‘local’ wind farms are owned as far afield as the Cayman Islands and Canada, The Ferret can reveal, prompting claims the Scottish Government is “misleading” the public over its community energy targets. The Scottish Government has a target to bring much more “community or locally owned” Read more
SNP ministers have been accused of “selling the family silver” after it emerged they had used a £750 million fund built up from selling offshore wind plots to plug their budget gap. Shona Robison set out her spending plans last week with the Nats facing a £1.5 billion black hole. Read more
We hope you have a great one despite the weather. As always, this year’s Xmas card was created by our Chairman Graham Lang. We hope it gives you a chuckle. The wind industry hate humour!
Xmas comes but one a year! Faw Side Wind Farm refused. Dumfries and Galloway/Scottish Borders. Congratulations everyone concerned! Ministers’ decision Taking into account the above assessment the Scottish Ministers consider there would be significant landscape and visual impacts, and subsequent residential amenity effects, and impacts on defence interests at Eskdalemuir Read more
Thank you for signing up for the presentation on Planning Appeals with the DPEA. We hope you found the event useful, even if you could not make it on the day, we hope you find these resources useful. Please pass this email on to any staff from your organisation which may Read more
Renewable energy company BayWa r.e. has received planning approval from the Scottish Government for Corriegarth 2 Wind Farm, near Gorthleck and south east of Foyers. An extension to the already-operational Corriegarth Wind Farm owned by Greencoat UK Wind, the consented scheme could produce enough domestically-sourced renewable energy to meet approximately Read more