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.
A NEW floating offshore wind farm is being proposed to the north of Shetland – with plans to link the development to a hydrogen refinery in the isles. The 10GW offshore wind farm, which would be located 136km north of Shetland, is being proposed by Aker Horizons, and it was Read more
Jamie Green MSP in Parliament today signalling his opposition to the Skelmorlie Windfarm (Rigghill): https://twitter.com/jamiegreeneUK/status/1455943414030163968 He was very supportive of our Petition and will hopefully be able to take part in the Debate being organised for us in Holyrood by Finlay Carson MSP.
In response to a statement by Aaron Priest of SSE Renewables on the topic of microplastic eroding from wind turbine blades: Dear SSE Renewables, Save Shetland would like to thank Aaron Priest for his response to Save Shetland’s concerns about leading edge erosion and pollution from wind turbine blades following Read more
By Martin Williams Senior News Reporter A MAJOR Scottish union has told MPs and MSPs there will be “no net zero” without a new generation of ‘low carbon’ nuclear power stations to replace those that are shutting down. GMB Scotland, the union for energy workers in Scotland, warned Scottish politicians Read more
IN a BBC Breakfast interview on Monday (November 1) Nicola Sturgeon, in response to a question on electrical generation in Scotland, replied: “Ninety-seven per cent of all electricity we consume in Scotland comes from renewables sources”. This is wrong. On the inside cover of a four-page advertising supplement presented with Read more
THE CLIMATE impact of digging up peat to build wind farms could be greater than thought, scientists are warning – raising questions over turbines in Shetland. Restoring damaged bogs is increasingly understood to be critical to meeting emissions targets, with more funding announced ahead of COP26 – and experts are calling for Read more
In her address to the world’s leaders at Cop26, the Queen praised her late husband, Prince Philip, for lighting the flame of environmentalism that lives on in Princes Charles and William. As long ago as 1969, she said, the former Duke of Edinburgh warned that pollution would make every other Read more
A PUBLIC inquiry into a wind farm rejected by Borders councillors will be held next year. Faw Side wind farm – which would straddle the Borders and Dumfries and Galloway – was opposed by Scottish Borders Council’s (SBC) planning and building standards committee in March. The fate of the project, Read more