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Plans for a £150m factory near Hull which will make materials for magnets used in electric cars and wind turbines have been approved despite objections. The plant, which will process rare earth materials, will be built next to the existing Saltend Chemical Park. More than 30 objections to the factory Read more
REBECCA McQuillan’s article (“Renewable power is cheap so why are we being ripped off?”,The Herald, June 3) exhibited a very poor level of background research and a too-ready acceptance of renewable energy industry myth and misconception. Even a cursory examination of recent wind farm operators’ accounts lodged at Companies House Read more
A man has died at a construction site for a wind farm converter station in Shetland. The 23-year-old was injured at the site in the Upper Kergord area of Shetland at about 10:15 on Sunday, police said. Emergency services went to the location but the man died at the scene. Read more
“Here the whole sky is smoke,” the writer Joseph Roth noted as he travelled through the Ruhr, Germany’s old industrial heartland, nearly a century ago. “It hangs in a grey pall over the land that has made it and that continues to make more of it … It is sacrifice, Read more
Rishi Sunak consults on plans for North Sea oil and gas tax to cover only profits on electricity generated from fossil fuels By Edward Malnick, Sunday Political Editor 4 June 2022 • 10:00pm Rishi Sunak had previously suggested all profits from electricity generation could be hit, regardless of the Read more
I AGREE with Elinor Ross (letter to the Northern Times, May 27) that the Scottish Government must do more to protect rural communities from repeated planning applications by developers, writes Michael O’Reilly, Inchomney, Rogart. In February this year, we were finally told, after more than three years of anxious waiting, Read more
I WAS outraged to read in a recent edition of the Northern Times letters page, how the chairman of Lairg Community Council, Iain Thomson, casually stated at a recent AGM, regarding the proliferation of wind farms in the area, that: “It is more by perception that there are a lot Read more
We mentioned a few days ago that the SAS petition to the Scottish Parliament will be discussed for the third time at the next meeting of the Committee on 15 June and will be streamed live. The Planning Minister, Tom Arthur has been invited to attend to answer questions from Read more