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Aberdeen has been selected as the home for the “world’s first” offshore floating facility to produce green hydrogen. The “pioneering” Dolphyn project will sit 15km off the coast, allowing the UK to harness the power of the superfuel using floating wind turbines. Developer Environmental Resources Management (ERM) described it as Read more
Scotland’s economy secretary has been challenged by Labour to stop “outsourcing” green industry jobs as yet more windfarm work goes overseas. Last week it was announced BiFab – which operates two fabrication yards in Fife and one near Stornoway – had failed to win any of the work for the Read more
A 73-year-old fraudster has been jailed after conning people in the north-east out of £380,000 through his wind turbine firm. Robert McKechnie took thousands from three different victims, promising to put up wind turbines for them in exchange. His unfortunate victims shelled out, often under pressure to make quick payments, Read more
Apparently Energiekontor have learned their lesson from all the knockbacks they have had due to the Finney judgement https://scotlandagainstspin.org/…/update-supreme-court…/ and have submitted a whole new application to increase tip heights at Overhill Wind farm near Dalmellington in East Ayrshire (which should never have been approved in the first place). https://www.cumnockchronicle.com/…/17390391…/ Read more
The boss of one of Scotland’s biggest industrial trade unions has criticised economy secretary Fiona Hyslop after she claimed only independence could deliver green jobs for Scotland. Hyslop made the remarks in parliament following the decision by energy group SSE Renewables not to award any work on its £3bn Seagreen Read more
THE single-track road from Barrhill in South Ayrshire to New Luce in Wigtownshire, winds through conifer forests and across desolate moorland, where cattle and sheep graze. A few miles from Barrhill, a potholed track leads for almost a mile to Dochroyle Farm, the home of Pat Spence. The cobwebs shimmer Read more
Plans are being prepared for a floating offshore wind farm consisting of up to 10 turbines off the north coast at Dounreay. The structures could be taller than those at the existing Beatrice offshore wind farm in the outer Moray Firth, and closer to the shore. The development would be Read more
The world cannot be “caught napping” on climate change as it was with the coronavirus, Boris Johnson said yesterday, as he outlined plans for a green industrial recovery for the UK focused on new technology. “Humanity was caught napping by coronavirus,” the prime minister told a UN General Assembly climate Read more