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RENOWNED for its stunning scenery, pure air and sense of peace, a new Viking battle is disturbing island life on Shetland more than a thousand years after the first. Last month, after a protracted process involving petitions, court fights and appeals, the bulldozers finally moved in to start work on Read more
Jonathan Ford’s article (Opinion, September 7) about system costs for renewable generation is important but only part of the story. First, the cost estimates by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy bear little relation to reality. I have compiled a large database of actual costs derived from audited Read more
The millions of solar panels being dumped in landfills are a veritable toxic cocktail of gallium arsenide, tellurium, silver, crystalline silicon, lead, cadmium and other heavy metals. Then there’s the landfill legacy being created by wind turbine blades, with the First World cynically using the Third World as its dumping Read more
SHETLAND Islands Council has insisted that there was no need to review its lease agreement with Viking Energy when the controversial wind farm project became a solely owned Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) venture in May last year. Opponents of the project are claiming that the nature of the project Read more
The Michael Moore-produced ‘Planet of the Humans’ faced a coordinated suppression campaign led by professional climate activists backed by the same ‘green’ billionaires, Wall Street investors, industry insiders and family foundations skewered in the film. ‘Green’ billionaires behind professional activist network that led suppression of ‘Planet of the Humans’ documentary
UK Energy Department BEIS is to include floating wind in next year’s Contracts for Difference auction but is not planning a separate pot, it is understood. BEIS Secretary Alok Sharma appeared to indicate today at an Environmental Audit Committee hearing that floating would be given access to a standalone auction. Read more
A report, published today, has indicated that UK citizens view wind and solar power as critical to meeting net zero. https://www.climateassembly.uk/report/ (Chapter 8) The Path to Net Zero report is the final report published by Climate Assembly UK, set up to understand public preferences on how the UK should tackle Read more
The Scottish Land Court has granted SSE Section 19A permission to build parts of the 443MW Viking wind farm on crofting land. The decision, which is separate to the planning consent granted by the Scottish government last May, removes a remaining legal hurdle to the construction of SSE’s newer scheme Read more