Anti-wind farm campaigners have condemned the erection of a giant experimental turbine overlooking one of Scotland’s most deprived communities as “a political vanity project” and “a desperate punt to save the First Minister’s offshore wind strategy”. It has cost taxpayers over £6 million in grants from the Scottish Government and Read more
Protestors from across Scotland are converging on Perth on Saturday for the climax of the SNP’s annual conference. Police and organisors are expecting higher numbers than ever before. As anger about ever-rising energy prices escalates across the UK, Scottish Government wind policy has never been so unpopular or attracted so Read more
Linda Holt of SAS commented: The SNH wind farm maps are worse than useless – indeed they are dangerous because they lull the public and decision-makers into a false sense of security about the extent of turbine development in Scotland. Indeed if we go on the number of turbines we Read more
This goes well beyond the cutting of corners and bending of rules that have characterised the Scottish Government’s blind pursuit of the world’s most ambitious renewable targets. As an eminent judge’s impeccably argued ruling threatens to stall a substantial tranche of wind farm development, Scottish Ministers have decided their renewable Read more
SAS Comment on Aberdeenshire turbine numbers, where the majority of turbines that have been consented remain unbuilt as yet: Not seeing turbines which have been consented lulls people into a false sense of security. This is very dangerous as many areas of Scotland such as Aberdeenshire are well past saturation Read more
National anti-wind farm campaign group Scotland Against Spin has raised the alarm about a renewable energy company engaged by Fife Council to develop turbines on their behalf at 25 Council-owned sites. It has accused Glasgow-based company Phenix Energy of being on “a fishing expedition, regardless of the cost to Fife Read more
Caithness Windfarm Information Forum (CWIF) has just launched a specially commissioned report “The Safety Aspects of The Highland Council’s Practice of Placing Small Wind Turbines in School Playgrounds”* Highland Council, like other councils and schools all over the UK, has been installing turbines in school playgrounds with no regard for Read more
SAS has commented on the latest DECC press release* about renewable energy jobs and investment. These are overspun and discredited figures which will persuade no one that onshore wind energy is a significant job creator. In fact the very high levels of public subsidy, not to mention the increased electricity Read more