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Exclusive by Martin Williams Senior News Reporter A UNITED Nations body has begun a probe into whether the Scottish and UK governments have broken international law through a failure to give the public the right of challenge over planning decisions that would damage the nation’s precious environment, landscape and wildlife, Read more
An energy company will hold a public exhibition in Lybster this month to outline its plans to substantially increase the height of turbines at the planned Golticlay wind farm. At the same time, RWE Renewables UK Onshore Wind will run a virtual consultation room to let residents know why it Read more
SCOTLAND’s Energy Secretary has said he wants to see communities have a legal right to directly benefit from local wind farm developments under independence. In an exclusive interview with The National, Michael Matheson also disputed recent reports that the selling of leasing rights for offshore windfarms had been a financial Read more
A Caithness woman has voiced her anger at the prospect of a “massive” increase in a wind farm that will dominate the skyline close to her home. Jo Bowd is already worried about the visual impact of the Golticlay project, approved two years ago and planned for a site directly Read more
A Vattenfall-funded research programme into seabird flights around offshore wind farms has revealed behaviour that could “speed up the consenting process” for new projects by revealing that seabirds will avoid the sites. The €3m study used radar and AI technologies to track flight patterns in 3D around the developer’s Aberdeen Read more
UK consumers are paying hundreds of millions of pounds to turn wind turbines off because the grid cannot deal with how much electricity they make on the windiest days. The energy regulator Ofgem has told Sky News it is because the grid is “not yet fit for purpose” as the Read more
The UK would have to devote half its farmland or more than double its total renewable electricity supply to make enough aviation fuel to meet its ambitions for “jet zero”, or net zero flying, scientists have said. A report published on Tuesday by the Royal Society argues there is no Read more
Lesley Roarty is a Legal Director with Turcan Connell Developers are proposing ever taller wind turbines across Scotland to help projects stack up financially. The latest proposals for EDF Renewables’ Dunside project in the Lammermuir Hills in southern Scotland feature turbine heights of 850 feet. As wind power remains the Read more