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.
August Graham and Benjamin Cooper’s recent article “Household fuels bill to stay two and a half times pre-crisis levels” (Scotsman, 3 August) is the clearest attempt I have seen to try to bring home the reality of the tsunami of power price increases about to engulf us. I will Read more
So Scottish Renewables publish a blog on their website summarising the RSPB’s letter about the impact of avian flu but fail to mention the final para of the letter in the hope no-one will bother following the link to read it in its entirety! Cherry picking is one word for Read more
THE UK has been sent a horror warning over its net zero plans as renewable energy projects in the North Sea risk being blown up by undetonated bombs, according to claims The UK has plans to rapidly scale up its offshore wind capacity to help slash its reliance on gas Read more
Power company Energiekontor UK is planning yet another wind farm in the Lairg area with the proposed turbines bigger than previous ones, it has emerged. The energy firm was granted planning consent last October for the 10-turbine Lairg II Wind Farm, to be sited four kilometres to the south east Read more
WIND TURBINES have been declared ugly despite their clean energy benefits, a new poll of Express.co.uk readers has found. https://www.express.co.uk/…/wind-turbines-poll-result…
Copenhagen Offshore Partners has set out its plans for a floating wind farm off Dounreay The proposals include a substation and underground cables onshore The site would be near the Dounreay nuclear power complex and HMS Vulcan, a Ministry of Defence facility Highland councillors will be told of the plans Read more
RISHI SUNAK has been accused of a “policy flip flop” by the Liz Truss campaign over his stance on onshore wind power. On Wednesday, Rishi Sunak seemed to have changed his policy on onshore wind farms, prompting his rival in the Tory leadership race Liz Truss to call out his Read more
Alba Party deputy leader Kenny MacAskill has been criticised for a “pathetic stunt” to highlight the “scandal” of electricity from a Scottish wind farm being “siphoned south”. The East Lothian MP posed with a woman in a fancy dress outfit outside the UK Government offices in Edinburgh to “expose the Read more