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.
f any of you would like to raise Windfarms in your area, here’s a chance. BBC Debate Night, Scotland’s topical discussion programme, is back on the (virtual) road to give you, the people of Scotland, the opportunity to have your say about the issues that matter most to you. Next Read more
Campaigners have escalated their complaint about the SIC’s handling of the controversial Viking Energy windfarm. Save Shetland announced last night (Tuesday) that it had now taken its complaint about the planning authority to the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman. The group first raised its grievance last month. It also submitted a Read more
Proposals have been put forward to build a wind farm a few miles from New Cumnock in East Ayrshire with turbines measuring up to 260m (850ft) tall – twice the height of The Glasgow Tower, Scotland’s tallest building. The bid to create a new 50MW wind farm will generate enough Read more
FINANCIERS have underlined their appetite for windfarms in Scotland amid the latest in a series of deals in the sector. Blackfinch Energy has acquired two onshore developments in rural Aberdeenshire for an undisclosed sum. Investors have been attracted by the potential to generate attractive returns on investments in windfarms. These Read more
RESEARCHERS have warned that the Scottish Government must adopt a more devolved strategy to achieve its key carbon reduction targets by handing more resources and powers to city regions. The warning from experts at Edinburgh University comes as Energy Minister Paul Wheelhouse told MSPs that the UK Government needs to Read more
BEIS ( UK Dept of Business Energy & Industry Strategy) is holding a public consultation to gather evidence to inform its renewable/low carbon energy policies for the next decade & beyond. This is your chance to have your say! The whole BEIS document can be see here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/956815/high-renewable-net-zero-electricity-system-cfe.pdf It is Read more
Alastair Collin (Scotsman legal page 15 February) takes the lawyer’s view of being concerned for his clients’ (or potential clients’) finances, should they become involved with the decommissioning, restoration and aftercare of wind farm developments which have been sited on their land by a developer. To members of the public Read more
Banks Renewables has detailed plans to build an extension to Lethans wind farm in a scoping report submitted to the Scottish Government’s Energy Consents Unit. The proposed Lethans Wind Farm Extension will have a capacity of more than 50MW and would be located in East Ayrshire, less than 10 km Read more