Revealed: the great wind farm tax ‘con’/The Telegraph
Ministers may break pledge to stop funding onshore turbines with consumer subsidies http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/12156171/Revealed-the-great-wind-farm-tax-con.html
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Ministers may break pledge to stop funding onshore turbines with consumer subsidies http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/12156171/Revealed-the-great-wind-farm-tax-con.html
Further to your article regarding the demise of the hen harrier, it would be an interesting exercise to produce a map of where raptors are in decline and lay it over a constructed wind farm map to see if there are any similarities (Hen harriers virtually extinct in the northeast Read more…
Despite the reduction in Feed in Tariff (FiT) support for UK wind energy, turbine installations will continue to provide considerable returns (also in the form of energy savings) for both landowners and commercial users. http://www.farminguk.com/News/Still-considerable-returns-to-be-made-despite-reduction-in-support-for-wind-energy_38651.html
Has WWF Scotland stopped looking after wildlife in favour of supporting wind turbines and protesting about climate change? There are enough people, organisations, pressure groups and propaganda machines already doing this. Lang Banks, since he took over as director of WWF Scotland, has been firing off press releases and newspaper Read more…
By Douglas Dickie Healthy n Happy Community Development Trust are considering an appeal against the decision to block their plans for a 76.5-metre turbine on Flemington Farm. The Reformer broke the news on our website last Thursday that councillors were set to reject the plans at a committee yesterday (Tuesday). Read more…
The UK Government is being criticised today by the European Commission for failing to make sufficient progress towards EU-wide renewable energy targets – adding to calls for the Tories to reverse their damaging cuts to renewables support. EU criticises UK (but not Scotland) as one of the worst renewable performers
Conservation charity the John Muir Trust has welcomed a decision by Highland Council to object to a proposed windfarm that would be partly built on designated “wild land” in Sutherland. https://www.energyvoice.com/otherenergy/101528/objection-to-highland-windfarm-backed-by-campaigners/
MARK WILLIAMSON RENEWABLE energy specialist Flextricity has developed a product it reckons will help firms make profitable use of wind farm output that might otherwise go wasted. The Edinburgh-based firm said its Footroom automated service helps manufacturers and the like increase production when wind farm output could potentially at its Read more…