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.
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
Glenouther REP, 12 turbines, (a redesign of Harelaw REP, 39 turbines which was Refused by Scottish Ministers in September 2013) was refused by East Ayrshire Council in May 2016. The decision was appealed to the DPEA in August 2016 and was dismissed by the Reporter, Andrew Sikes in May 2017. Read more
Community councils and campaigners have said the deadline for consultation on a major pylon line to run from the Highlands is “undemocratic”, as they call for a public inquiry. A Scottish Government consultation has been launched on Scottish and Southern Electricity Network’s (SSEN) application for permission to build a major Read more
On the 18th December we will be taking East Renfrewshire Council to Judicial Review in the court of session in an attempt to overturn the controversial BESS planning application in Eaglesham. A previous planning application for this site had been rejected 4:2 and was subsequently upheld by the Scottish reporter Read more