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Newlands Hill Wind Energy Hub – Pre Application The Application Site is located 6km southeast of Gifford on the northern edge of the Lammermuir Hills within East Lothian. 17x200m wind turbines https://www.energyconsents.scot/ApplicationDetails.aspx?cr=ECU00004603
Mike McKinnell (Turbines Ahoy, letters 2 September) needs to get out a bit more and travel further afield if he thinks the extent of wind farm development is extreme in West Lothian which has a density of 0.154 wind turbines per km2. East Renfrewshire for example, is much worse affected Read more
Representatives for Shetland’s fishing industry say they are being ignored in the drive to develop new wind farms off the islands, and took aim at the latest ScotWind clearance round. https://www.energyvoice.com/renewables-energy-transition/wind/uk-wind/scotwind/441424/shetland-fishing-industry-flung-by-the-wayside-in-rush-for-offshore-wind/?fbclid=IwAR101_YxVClyNRjCl59C2kp3SL3nKutgeXvxvd9Fd4NCcygaq7jKsZ1d-yY
THE SCOTTISH Government is facing legal action after an 11-year breach of international law through a failure to have a public right of challenge over decisions that would damage the nation’s precious environment, landscape and wildlife. A coalition of campaign groups from Planning Democracy, Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland, Friends Read more
Installation of offshore wind turbines must double or even treble if the UK is to meet a key target by 2030, according to a new report. http://dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2022/09/call-to-cut-planning-time-to-hit-offshore-target/?fbclid=IwAR0YG3q5MD_FJrOlzvqr1KadUAYxKeIIibIVUrEhs5WQnxZXrpu4UyAHQq8
Atom Kraft? Nein Danke, as the stickers said on crumbling 2CVs. My parents drove a VW, but they were dedicated anti-nuclear campaigners who refused to differentiate between civil and military uses of nuclear power. We were doomed either way. I inherited much of their instinctive prejudice against all things nuclear. Read more
Turbines ahoy I was fishing this week at Cobbinshaw Reservoir, which is the compensation reservoir for the Union Canal. It is situated just south of West Calder. As we approached we could see the wind farm with six turbines just south of Pates Hill and we could also see Read more
Largely unseen by the outside world, a transformation has been taking place in the remote Kintyre peninsula on the west coast of Scotland. And it is not over yet. Funded by international power companies and one of the biggest corporations in the world, nine wind farms have already been built Read more