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Land Adjacent To The St Fergus Gas Terminal, St Fergus, Peterhead, AB42 3EL Erection Of 2 Wind Turbines (Hub Height 78M, 119M To Blade Tip), A 5Mwp Solar Photovoltaic Farm, Battery Storage Units And Associated Infrastructure Case Update – 21/07/2021** The decision on this case has been issued. The case Read more
I’m proud to be a wind farm NIMBY I have a question for BBC Countryfile after their wind farm programme. Were Beatrice Potter, Canon Rawnsley and John Ruskin NIMBYs? They lived in the Lake District and saved it for posterity. I am proud of our Penicuik town of NIMBYs who Read more
Land At Barwhillarty Estate And Glenswinton Farm, Parton, Castle Douglas, DG7 3QN PPA-170-2152 (Planning Permission Appeal) Erection Of 7 Wind Turbines (Up To 149.9M From Base To Tip) With Associated Development Including Formation Of Access Tracks, Formation Of Upgraded Access, Borrow Pits And Temporary Construction Compound, Erection Of Permanent Anemometry Read more
A GROUP campaigning against the planned Garvary Wind Farm is seeking volunteers and donations. Struie Action Group was initially founded some five years ago in opposition to the Beinn Tharsuinn Wind Farm, which was consented but never built. The action group is now being revitalised following the submission Read more
By Kristy Dorsey Business Correspondent Cerulean Winds has signed an agreement that will allow it to store excess power produced at sea at onshore hydrogen facilities. The deal with px Group, which operates some of the UK’s largest industrial facilities, will see the installation of hydrogen storage plants at sites Read more
By Martin Williams Senior News Reporter SCOTS consumers back plans for net zero emissions by 2045, but are ‘in the dark’ over the challenges it will pose in their own lives despite high profile campaigns, new research has found. Just 65 per cent had no identifiable energy efficiency measures or Read more
COUNTRYFILE viewers were divided over Charlotte Smith’s investigation into the environmental impact of wind farms in tonight’s instalment of the BBC countryside show. Countryfile presenter Charlotte Smith looked into the impact offshore wind farms have on the UK countryside in the most recent episode of the BBC show. She met Read more