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Aileen Jackson and Rosemary Milne attended the International Conference on Wind Turbine Noise last week on behalf of SAS and were overwhelmed by the warm reception they received from all delegates to their talk on Living beside Wind Turbines. More on that to come shortly. Other issues were discussed at Read more
We all want to see real action on climate change. That means we must reduce greenhouse gas emissions from industrial sources, otherwise we won’t be able to cut our carbon emissions enough to reach net zero as a nation by 2045. Simply shutting down industries and factories isn’t an option. Read more
Huge floating wind farms could be used to decarbonise emissions from North Sea oil platforms. Cerulean Winds, an infrastructure developer, has made a request to Marine Scotland to lease parts of the seabed for its ambitious plans. The London company wants to install hundreds of turbines offshore that could generate Read more
MINISTERS have been criticised for an “abject failure” over its 2020 ‘green capital of Europe’ revolution which has produced as little as five per cent of the low carbon jobs it forecast. The Herald on Sunday can reveal that what was initially a taxpayer-backed £70m investment fund to finance the Read more
The Ministry of Defence is “under attack” from wind farms, according to newly released documents that show that the agency raises formal concerns over proposed sites in Scotland at least once a week on average. Defence officials have objected to schemes or sought assurances that they will not interfere with Read more
Why do we insist on destroying nature on the pretence of saving it? WHILST completely in agreement with Struan Stevenson (“March of the wind farms is destroying Scotland’s beauty – but we can stop it”, The Herald, May 27) about the catastrophic effect of unrestrained wind farm development on Scotland’s Read more
Turbines total According to experts at Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University the number of workers in the UK’s offshore energy sector could reach 220,000 by the end of this decade (your report, 25 May). In Scotland the “tens-of-thousands” of wind turbine jobs promised went to foreign manufacturers and foreign workers. The Read more
Bird-mincers Since when did the industrial scale slaughter of wildlife become “Clean Green” energy? Why, oh why, are we celebrating what the RSPB describe as the final nail in the coffin for seabirds? The entire media, from newspapers to the BBC, act as a fawning mouthpiece for the wind industry, Read more