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.
Wind and solar rent-seekers are laughing all the way to the bank, with your money. Subsidising wind and solar operators under the mantle of reaching mythical net-zero carbon oxide gas emissions targets comes with a staggering cost: wrecked communities, wrecked environments and wrecked economies. The cult that drives it all, Read more
Twynholm Community Council is to hold a public meeting on a proposal for a wind farm development partly sited within its boundaries. Seven turbines up to 180m high, plus a network of connecting and access roads, are being envisaged under developers Wind2’s Lairdmannoch Energy Park, The project also includes a Read more
Aileen’s second reply to Elspeth Russell is in the Herald today + another one from Norman McNab Just the tip of the iceberg IN response to Elspeth Russell (Letters, October 11, Would you rather live beside a turbine or a mine) can I say first of all that she is Read more
“The answer is blowin’ in the wind,” beneath a turbine in a desolate field. Labour’s Shadow Secretary for Energy and Net Zero posted the video online earlier this year from near Mansfield as part of his “tour around wind farms”. The UK’s legal obligation is to achieve net zero by Read more
The claim by Sir Keith Starmer that “the transition to clean British energy means cheaper bills for every family” is incorrect as the Labour leader, just like Leah Gunn Barrett (Letters, 11 October) fails to recognise that, in historic terms, electricity has always been three times more expensive than gas. Read more
Reply to Aileen’s letter of 9 October.
Renewables are still just meeting increased demand for electricity rather than replacing fossil fuels, according to DNV’s Energy Transition Outlook The report finds that between 2017-2022 fossil fuels met 51% of new energy demand, despite a rapid buildout of renewable capacity. Solar installations reached a record 250GW in 2022, according Read more
OFFSHORE projects in the UK are facing barriers due to the strict new immigration rules from the Home Office, a lawyer at a top international legal firm has warned. The Tory government’s “extremely complex” visa rules risk putting further strain on the offshore wind sector, increasing project budgets and even Read more