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.
Power Point Stephen Flynn, the SNP Leader at Westminster, provided no data on how he will achieve “sustained economic growth with independence” (your report, 17 July) when the 45,000MW of windmills, announced in the SNP Energy Paper issued in the spring, will produce no electricity when the wind fails Read more
Wind farms are far from green YOU carry an article on the destruction/reconstruction of the Hagshaw wind farm (“Scotland’s first commercial windfarm to be repowered”, The Herald, July 14). I note that the powers that be in SSE Renewables seem to be under the illusion that their efforts in Hagshaw’s Read more
Last week we posted an update on our Petition to the Scottish Parliament along with our latest submission in response to the Planning Minister. Since then, due to evidence being received from one of our members of disgraceful behaviour from an Applicant’s legal team directed at his own community group Read more
More than 100 of the UK’s biggest energy companies will tell Rishi Sunak this week not to back off the green agenda after a report by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) warned of catastrophic effects on the economy of continued overreliance on gas. The energy sector is becoming so Read more
An SNP MP is attempting to change the law to block councils from ordering public inquiries into windfarms and power line schemes. Alan Brown, the party’s energy spokesman at Westminster, sought to add a clause to the UK Government’s new energy bill that would strip councils of the right to Read more
Hypocrites Climate Camp Scotland has said that the protest camp set up near the Ineos Kinneil terminal in Grangemouth will be Scotland’s biggest protest encampment for a decade (your report, 13 July). Did the demonstrators from India, Netherlands and Ukraine arrive by bike? What about the others? As usual, Read more
IAN Blackford’s excitedly-trumpeted “Roadmap for a Scottish Green industrial Strategy” (“Ian Blackford: Roadmap for a green industrial future for Scotland”, heraldscotland, July 14) flies in the face of what he said before he was elected. It is simply going to help Big Energy industrialise the Highlands against the will of Read more
A closing submission on a controversial pylon project has been blocked from publication by the Scottish Government because it may contain offensive material. SP Energy Networks lodged its summary justifying construction of the Glenlee-Tongland overhead line section of the Kendoon-Tongland Reinforcement (KTR) with the planning and environmental appeals division (DPEA) Read more