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.
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The Agenda has now been published for the Hearing of the Scotland Against Spin Public Petition to the Scottish Parliament. https://www.parliament.scot/…/mee…/2021/cppps6212/agenda If you follow the Clerk’s notes you will find our Petition https://www.parliament.scot/~/media/committ/374 They seem to have done a reasonably good job of highlighting the main issues to the Committee. Read more
HE UK Government has been accused of “pulling the rug from under” Scotland’s renewable energy sector, as Greens MSP Mark Ruskell has told Express.co.uk of the “uneasy” relationship Scotland has with Westminster. The question of Scotland’s energy promises to be a key issue for Scottish independence. Scotland has emerged in Read more
The fishing industry has attacked the cooperation deal between the SNP and the Scottish Greens, claiming it will create an “increasingly hostile environment” for the industry. In a letter sent to rural affairs and islands cabinet secretary, Mairi Gougeon and net zero cabinet secretary, Michael Matheson, the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation Read more
Moffat and District Community Council will no longer object to Scoop Hill windfarm on behalf of the town – despite committing to do so last month. Instead, the group will only forward the results of its recent community consultation on the proposed 75-turbine development to the Scottish Government’s Energy Consents Unit Read more
Today’s letters in the Scotsman
A construction company and a security firm have admitted breaching health and safety rules in an incident which led to the death of a 74-year-old wind farm security guard. Ronnie Alexander died in hospital in January 2018. He was taken there after being “exposed to extreme weather conditions” for several Read more
We have received a message from the Contractor carrying out the BEIS Study which we highlighted on this page last week. “The stakeholder engagement exercise has been opened to invited organisations who are involved in technical application of the current guidance (ETSU-R-97 and the IOA GPG), to consider whether it Read more