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.
By Allister Thomas A Kincardine wind turbine, which sits just 10 miles off Aberdeen, is being towed hundreds of miles to Rotterdam for scheduled maintenance because the UK doesn’t have facilities to service it. The KIN-02 turbine is part of the Kincardine floating wind farm, until recently the largest project Read more
A RECOMMENDATION that Highland Council ‘raise an objection’ to the planned Garvary Wind Farm – earmarked to go on land 4.5km south of Lairg – has been described as “disappointing” by the scheme’s development manager. James Baird commented after the local authority made public its report on the 25-turbine wind Read more
Press and Journal letters Our Press and Journal is again depicting daily the horrors and danger of wildfires, this time at Cannich. What politicians, planners and local councillors, seem to be blissfully unaware of, is that Wind Turbines pose a significant, deadly, and growing threat to wildlife and human habitation. Read more
SAS has received an invitation to a roundtable at Holyrood followed by a parliamentary debate which you can all attend. Our Petition will be discussed and also the concerns which we raised about the Scottish Government advising decision makers to continue using ETSU-R-97 until new Guidance is issued, when they Read more
The Scottish Parliament Petitions Committee discussed our Petition again this morning and took evidence from Brian Whittle MSP who kindly attended in person to give us support. We are very grateful to him. The Petition will be continued as the Committee was not happy with the response from our new Read more
Some readers may be aware of Belltown Power’s proposal for an onshore wind farm on Newlands Hill. This ridge is situated about two miles from Gifford on the road to Duns. Given the adverse impact, we have initiated ‘Save our Skyline – LammermuirSOS’. This campaign is not against wind energy Read more
As promised, some further information from the DPEA Stakeholders’ meeting last Tuesday which Rachel and Aileen attended on behalf of SAS. Only the Agenda items raised by SAS are detailed below. MAPS SAS had raised the need for a national wind farm map at the previous meeting and other stakeholders Read more
Tall white towers will change Dundee’s skyline for the rest of the year as a new stage of wind farm work gets under way at the Port of Dundee. Since March last year parts for the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm have been stored horizontally on the Port’s Read more