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Rogart Community Council has decided to object to a planned small wind farm in a bid to highlight a wider transport issue. Members agreed to register an objection with the local authority to the Strath Tirry Wind Farm, north of Dalmichie, Lairg. The wind farm, comprising four turbines measuring 135m Read more
Please follow the link and sign the Petition to help the people of Wales. It adds weight to our own Petition to the Scottish Parliament and vice versa. The current system unfairly favours developers who have access to legal, planning and financial expertise. Individuals / communities don’t have the Read more
French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said that if she is elected president next year she will end all subsidies for renewable energy and will take down France’s wind turbines. Le Pen, who will be the candidate of the Rassemblement National party in the April vote, made it to Read more
First coined almost 100 years ago in the United States, the phrase that success in property is about three things – “location, location, location”- has certainly stood the test of time. By David Alexander But the 2020’s are different from the 1920s in so many ways and in the residential Read more
SIR – The National Grid’s online data for the electricity generated by Britain’s 11,000 wind turbines showed that, in the year up to mid-September, they contributed an average of only 17.6 per cent of what the country required. Sometimes the daily or even weekly rate was as low as 3 Read more
BORIS Johnson has been warned over-reliance on “unreliable regimes” such as China for its energy supplies will leave the UK vulnerable to precisely the sort of price volatility the nation is currently experiencing. And former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith also fears the consequences of Britain’s dependence on Beijing Read more
In today’s Times
It seems that Scottish wind turbines defy the laws of physics. Jim Daly extols their virtues saying they are reliable, cheap and the nasty English, or at least the National Grid, are charging wind turbine owners – mostly foreign – too much to transmit their electricity (Letters, 11 October). The Read more