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.
In our headlong rush to ‘save the planet’ perhaps a sobering reality check for the deluded Greens is long overdue? A small, ever-so-green, 100-megawatt wind farm needs 30,000 tons of iron ore; 50,000 tons of concrete and 900 tons of non-recyclable plastic. For the same power from an ever-so-green solar Read more
On the day the Mount Emerald wind farm was officially declared open, Steve Nowakowski felt a heady optimism. It was winter 2019, the sky was clear and a slight breeze ruffled Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s hair as she spruiked Queensland’s clean, green energy future. Steve, a renowned wilderness photographer and veteran Read more
Cables connecting one of the largest proposed offshore wind farms in the world could come ashore at Skateraw. SSE Renewables is currently working on plans for Berwick Bank Wind Farm, which would be 40 kilometres off the coast of East Lothian. Now, the developers claim they have reached “a major Read more
Construction work on a major underground pipeline has ground to a halt, after a furious Angus farmer claimed contractors were destroying his land. Work was stopped on the Seagreen windfarm pipeline, which runs through Inveraldie Farm on the outskirts of Dundee, when Gordon Beattie accused Roadbridge, the SSE contractor, of Read more
Opponents of plans to dig a 60km trench through the Norfolk countryside and a new substation “the size of Wembley stadium” for an offshore wind farm have slammed the decision to approve it. Ray Pearce, who lives near Reepham, has vowed to ask for a judicial review into the energy Read more
The PAS submission to our Petition + our response to it, is posted below Adopting English planning legislation for the determination of onshore wind farm developments PAS Submission As an impartial organisation, PAS does not comment on policy approaches to renewable energy. It may be useful for the committee Read more
FRANKLY, I shall be glad to see the back of fossil fuels. For the whole of my working life they have caused trouble – or rather have been weaponized by an assortment of troublesome men. Just after the war the Labour Government and the National Union of Mineworkers were at Read more
In the space of one single day, (8 December) our wind farm addicted Scottish Ministers consented 4 wind farms with a total of 87 giant wind turbines in Moray, East and South Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway. Obviously little consideration was given to the further destruction of cherished landscapes, wildlife Read more