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.
Scotsman letters Of all the catastrophically stupid decisions ever made by UK politicians, the decision by Labour/snp to shut down our own oil and gas industry decades prematurely must rank near the top. It now appears we are already importing oil and gas – which, if we were to believe Read more
Vattenfall has greenlit the Clashindarroch II onshore wind farm, located next to its existing Clashindarroch farm near Huntly, Aberdeenshire. The planned 14 wind turbines will generate up to 63 MW of renewable electricity, enough to power around 61,000 homes per year. The preparatory works for Clashindarroch II will begin in Read more
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Depressing reading. https://brodies.com/insights/planning-environment-and-climate/battery-energy-storage-in-scotland-consenting-trends/
We are increasingly in a mess of our own making, and it’s down to nothing other than quasi-religious dogma. We aren’t listening to the engineers. We aren’t “following the science”. We are making everything worse. https://cliscep.com/2025/09/03/power-failure/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMk2GJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHj44gazhQa8VlKkBBF0eDlbikM7X_7hzJGagVu8uMKupxlXg5VHVFVYiAjO0_aem_yr-SWHd7zw4L1LZ6W_W3Xg
A SPANISH owned green energy giant has pulled the plug on plans for a ‘trailblazing’ Scottish hydrogen plant after receiving almost £10million of taxpayers’ money. ScottishPower was awarded £9.4million from the UK Government towards the first-of-a-kind hydrogen storage and refuelling plant at Whitelee Wind Farm in Eaglesham almost four years Read more
Councillors are being advised against raising an objection to a proposed wind farm despite acknowledgement of its “significant” visual impact on a Berwickshire village. Scottish Borders Council’s Planning & Building Standards Committee will next week consider an application for the Ditcher Law Wind Farm on land north, south and west Read more
DUMFRIES and Galloway Council’s planning committee has backed a recommendation to refuse a windfarm application in Galloway. And it was music to the ears of the ‘Hands Off Our Hills’ protestors who gathered outside the council’s HQ yesterday morning to demonstrate against the proposal for the Glenvernoch Wind Farm from Read more