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The turbine, which stood on the grounds of insurance firm Aviva’s Pitheavlis base, in Perth, collapsed in the early hours of Friday with the insurance firm saying it occurred due to an “engineering fault”. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/giant-250-foot-wind-turbine-35892596?fbclid=IwY2xjawMxXsVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHoWagcujAj-AqRB4ofg_w-Sa5V-5FJVfVt-MwrM9FT2zCf-hyo7kkjJzl2DR_aem_LMZUUKJ4s5RYRE2vOGaXVA

Superb article in the Scotsman today from Katharine Hay detailing the outcome, so far, of our petition hearing at the Scottish Parliament yesterday.  We hope the Scotsman don’t give us a hard time for publishing part of the article, considering we gave them the story!   Scotland’s energy secretary will Read more

Politicians are finally waking up to the folly of Net Zero. The Tories have called for drilling in the North Sea. Reform UK wants to lift the ban on fracking. But the UK’s Labour government remains totally committed to renewables, no matter the costs https://www.spiked-online.com/video/blackouts-are-coming/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMuuEtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHgFG9qmmI7tlzED0A2bt21A-zDSPL-rlONT7Hd77pOo0TvXFeqd-POwC6Mab_aem_FdoOcdBGLvoQviKgZJKJuw

A quick summary of what happened at the petition committee meeting today. The committee unanimously agreed to call the Climate Action and Energy Minister (Gillian Martin) for questioning by the committee and others. The Convenor thinks this will be a very long session. Having spoken with MSPs after the meeting Read more

If Ed Miliband can deliver his net zero vision, a windy day should be a good day for Britain. Under the Energy Secretary’s clean power plans, it should mean lots of turbines – mostly in Scotland – spinning furiously and generating plentiful green power for the electricity grid, in theory. Read more

LORD of the Rings is about 1,750 pages long, depending which edition you read. If you sat down and tried to read it for eight hours a day, how long might it take? One month? If you then had to write an educated analysis and critique of it as a Read more

Scottish Borders Council’s Planning & Building Standards Committee met this morning to consider an application for the Ditcher Law Wind Farm on land north, south and west of Vineleaf Cottage in Oxton. Councillors were advised by council officers against raising an objection to the proposed wind farm despite acknowledgement of Read more

One single turbine from the Viking wind farm connects Shetland to global, national and local impacts that are often overlooked. This is the first part of a small series of articles, contributed by Erin Rizzato Devlin as part of our PowerShift project, that investigates the challenges of the transition to Read more