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.
Consumers could be stung by higher energy bills after the Crown Estate sold seabed rights to six offshore wind developments for £879m. The record-high prices were triggered by unprecedented demand for just a handful of sites up for auction. Money raised will be split between the Treasury and the Royal Family Read more
Of all the things the UK is internationally renowned for, good and reliable weather certainly isn’t one of them. Though this rarely extends to anything more than being a mild inconvenience, for energy sources that rely on the elements, it’s a real challenge. Wind and solar developments only produce energy Read more
Joanna Lumley has urged Boris Johnson to stop the “needless” detonation of wartime bombs at sea because it can cause deafness and even death in vulnerable whales and dolphins. In a letter to the prime minister and his fiancee, Carrie Symonds, who is a conservationist and animal welfare campaigner, the Read more
Two letters in the Scotsman today responding to Celia Hobb’s letter of 6 February.
Hundreds of hills across the UK could be transformed into renewable energy “batteries” through a pioneering hydropower system embedded underground. A team of engineers have developed a system that adapts one of the oldest forms of energy storage, hydropower, to store and release electricity from gentle slopes rather than requiring Read more
One of Grimsby’s last remaining, active fishermen had his equipment hauled out the sea by a wind farm contractor who went on to destroy it. Darren Kenyon, of Fastline Shellfish, lost 13 lobster pots and a distinctive anchor by a contractor working for the new Triton Knoll wind farm. The Read more
International (Biennial) Conference on Wind Turbine Noise https://www.windturbinenoise.eu/…/9-wind-turbine-noise…/ In 2015, SAS members displayed our Stand at the Noise Conference when it was held in Glasgow https://www.windturbinenoise.eu/…/2-wind-turbine-noise…/ We thoroughly enjoyed four days of manning the Stand, attending presentations, discussions, meeting people from all around the world and stealing what was left Read more
If a foreigner were to look at a map of wind farms and current windfarm applications in the UK I think they would assume a helpless Scotland had had them all dumped on their glorious landscape by a Westminster Government. I think they would find it inexplicable that a Scottish Read more