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This is the Consultation which relates to part of our Petition to the Scottish Parliament.  It seeks views on increasing the 50MW threshold which determines whether applications for onshore electricity generating stations are decided by Scottish Ministers or by the relevant planning authority.  Please take the time to respond.  https://www.gov.scot/publications/onshore-electricity-generation-consultation-increasing-threshold-applications-under-electricity-act/pages/13/

Councillors will be urged to block plans for a major Perthshire wind farm early in the new year Perth and Kinross Council planners are recommending they object to an application for 19 turbines at Glen Lednock, near Comrie. It comes after the planning committee objected to a neighbouring 12-turbine wind Read more

Scotsman letters All that is precious Saturday’s Scotsman celebrated “The great outdoors in all her glory” with a wonderful double page spread of photographs from around the country. (Sat 27th Dec). We are in acute danger of losing all these precious places, and glorious views, as our clueless politicians positively Read more

SNP Ministers have been accused of treating Scottish communities with contempt after it emerged they had forced through nearly 50 unwanted energy developments.  https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/snp-ministers-ride-roughshod-over-36461601?fbclid=IwY2xjawO92ghleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeOSUJrqWCgRhTTrkrB4osEmXTQHLN0IcPYDqHkYNzZgvyJzxZGZiz95tKedw_aem_7_x8nWS–1ln3E0bXk_Stw

THANK you to both industry body Renewableuk and the Energy Department (DESNZ) for calculating that 16.1GW of offshore wind can roast more than three million turkeys in electric ovens at once (“Britain generating enough offshore wind power to roast 3m turkeys at once”, The Herald, December 24). It can also Read more

Editor – THAT rather truculent, light-headed letter in last week’s paper (“Back the windfarm, listen to the kids”) would, I’m sure, gladden the hearts of would-be windfarm developers. I understand that the company Statkraft, who are applying to build the Giants Burn windfarm above Dunoon and Sandbank, did include a Read more

A RETIRED Dounreay specialist says responding to renewable energy planning applications is taking over his retirement. Dr John Heathcote was the principal specialist at Dounreay, where he worked on the decommissioning of the nuclear project and co-chaired its environmental committee. The objector to Carn Fearna Wind Farm acknowledges his engineering Read more

Merry Xmas to you all!