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Trout are unable to live in the Burn of Lunklet because of high concentrations of metal from the Viking construction site, a damning report has found. A report into water quality around the windfarm site found that the lack of trout in the burn was completely “unprecedented”. And Waterside Read more
Wind farms were paid to switch off on Tuesday evening at the same time households were asked to turn their lights off to save energy. Between 4.30pm and 6pm on Tuesday, wind farms were paid about £65,000 to stop producing enough electricity to power 50,000 homes for a day, according Read more
Easy equation? The main ingredient required to make inland wind turbines generate electricity is wind. Recently the “windmills” in my area and in many other areas have been motionless. In the form of a simple equation; wind turbine + no wind = no electricity generated = coal fired power Read more
North councillors have remained resolute in their decision to raise an objection to a planned Sutherland wind farm. Members of the North Planning Applications Committee were asked by the Scottish Government to reconsider their decision, taken just five months ago, to oppose the proposed Strath Oykel Wind Farm. The move Read more
No more suitable wind farm sites MARK Richardson, Senior Policy Manager at Scottish Renewables (Letters, January 23) tells us that a recent review by the University of Edinburgh conclusively showed that wind farms pay back the carbon produced during their construction within two years. He didn’t mention the highly-polluting and Read more
WIN-170-2007 – Faw Side Community Wind Farm – NPF4 Hearing Session Wednesday, 25th January 2023 at 10:00am https://dpea.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/738541
Community Windpower Limited (CWL) has reduced the number of turbines at its Scoop Hill Community Wind Farm development to 60. The reduction in turbines is part of a redesign of the project, originally submitted to the Scottish Government and Dumfries and Galloway Council in November 2020. During the consultation period, Read more
Specialist police officers are being drafted in from the mainland to escort convoys of Viking Energy windfarm components to the construction site. SSE Renewables and Vestas said the first convoys would start on Monday, 6th February, and run until the end of July. They will operate three a day, six Read more