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Dear sir, Many environmentalists will be appalled that Gordon Brown wants Bifab’s Fife yards to secure a ‘foothold in the North Sea’ (Courier 9th March). These giant, destructive, monstrosities should never have been approved in the first place. He seems to have forgotten the RSPB were so incensed by the Read more
It has come to the attention of France’s Federation Environment Durable (FED) that a windmill park project is under instruction in Denting, in the French department of Moselle. This park would be located at Ban Saint-Jean over a mass grave where over 23 000 corpses have been found: bodies from Read more
he Highland Council has turned down Cairnmore Hill wind farm in Scotland, according to RES. The eight-turbine project, located 4.5km north-west of Thurso is in an area identified by the Highland Council as having “potential for wind farm development”, RES said. The developer now has three months to consider whether Read more
Boris Johnson is handing more government cash to the Tories’ “Red Wall” areas, with almost £100m to build offshore wind power projects and create 6,000 new jobs in Teesside and Humberside. The prime minister is pledging £75m in government funding for the Able Marine Energy Park, on the south bank Read more
£1m Green gravity energy project gets off the ground at Leith docks A striking lattice-work tower has sprung up at Leith docks in Edinburgh as a pioneering energy storage demonstration project gets off the ground. The structure is part of a £1 million scheme being developed at Forth Port’s Prince Read more
China built more new windfarm capacity in 2020 than the whole world combined in the year before, leading to an annual record for windfarm installations despite the Covid-19 pandemic. A study has revealed that China led the world’s biggest ever increase in wind power capacity as developers built almost 100GW Read more
Conversations In addition to the formal sessions with author presentations we will be having a series of “conversations”. We have a significant session at this conference on the health effects and impact of turbine noise on neighbours so the first conversation on our list is between Aileen Jackson and Rosemary Read more
NICOLA Sturgeon has announced the Scottish Government will draw up a plan to attract “new and additional sources of investment” in order to meet key climate change targets. The First Minister has also insisted that the UK hosting the COP26 conference in Glasgow later this year is crucial to global Read more