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Are these both related to offshore wind farm activity? Time will tell. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-66312628?fbclid=IwAR1Nzj68YobMeCqcfkg-2UIyUO-Hj_fsmZLANwL4JC7kjFVEfl77Tw_K7gk https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23679232.lewis-whales-call-investigation-pod/?fbclid=IwAR3Q5oEKxPhbXN0Y-ms3o8S1SyZ48_AIorj6C-R74tIvcldAsvoogXwqfSc
Email received this morning from Alexander Burnett MSP’s assistant. Please let us know if there are any questions you would like us to ask. Aileen Jackson and Rachel Connor represented SAS at the event. As Alexander mentioned during the roundtable if there are questions you would like us to submit Read more
Rishi Sunak has signalled the government could delay or even abandon green policies that impose a direct cost on consumers, as he comes under pressure from the Conservative right to create a dividing line with Labour at the next election. The prime minister said the drive to reach the UK’s Read more
Rivox Wind Energy Hub is located wholly within the Dumfries and Galloway Council (DGC) administrative area, within the Beattock Composite and covers an area of circa 3115 hectares (ha), approximately 5 km west of Moffat The construction and operation of a new Wind Farm (Rivox Wind Farm) comprising up to Read more
Ofgem has imposed a hefty £9.78m penalty on SSE Generation for securing excessive payments from the UK’s electricity system operator, which was in breach of its licence and raised costs for customers. SSE Generation are expected to pay the sum in full by Tuesday 5 September. The watchdog confirmed the Read more
Offshore wind projects are facing an economic crisis that erased billions of US dollars in planned spending this week — just as the world needs clean energy more than ever. A unit of Spain’s Iberdrola SA agreed to cancel a contract to sell power from a planned wind farm off Read more
Fossil fuels plea The Labour leadership’s anger at the hated Ultra Low Emission Zone factor costing them the Uxbridge seat is understandable. The eyes of the people are opening. But it does not end there. The total absurdity of the masochistic ‘’net zero’’ target could not be illustrated better Read more
This week’s wind turbine appeal stats https://www.gov.scot/…/wind-turbine-appeal-decisions…/ Analysis of s36 applications can be found here https://brodies.com/…/section-36-wind-farm-decisions…/ More s36 stats are available in the Resources section of our website https://scotlandagainstspin.org/media-resource/