A series of community councils in a hot-spot area for wind farms claim “significant errors” have been made over plans to build some of Scotland’s tallest wind turbines in the Borders. Seven community councils from the areas surrounding the proposed Millmoor Rig windfarm, which is on Church of England land, have Read more
Attached below is the reply that Thor Klein has just received from John Swinney in response to the letter sent to him, signed by over 40 groups, asking for a moratorium on wind farm development. The response is sadly much as we expected. Well done Thor for all your efforts. Read more
Last week we mentioned that we had received an email from David Liddell, Assistant Chief Reporter at DPEA, asking us for comments on the draft guidance note for community hearings (attached below). This is our response. Dear David, SAS members (and other respondents) spent a great deal of time Read more
PLANS for a new wind farm between Dalmellington and New Cumnock are set to reach their next stage. Vattenfall has been developing plans for the South Kyle II project over the past two years, including taking feedback from local communities throughout the design process. The facility would be located on Read more
I watched Wednesday’s Holyrood debate on the attempt to railroad miles of pylons and square miles of substations through north-east Scotland and lack of consultation with campaign groups. The night before SSEN didn’t turn up at a Stonehaven Community Council meeting on the topic and neither did local MSP and Read more
Here we are in the depths of winter, minus 18.9C in Altnaharra. Solar Panels covered in snow. Not a breath of wind. Scraping the ice off our cars for weeks on end. The highest electricity prices in the world. Pensioners frozen. Gas supplies running out. Perilously close to blackouts. The Read more
See below to find out how they get the results they want! The polling, revealing public views on onshore wind farms in Scotland, is set to be published at the Labour party conference in Liverpool A new poll has showed an overwhelming backing for onshore wind farms, with more than Read more
News that the total number of offshore wind jobs in Scotland fell from 29,700 to 25,700 in the past year while profits have risen from almost £9 billion to £13bn are another nail in the coffin of the SNP-Greens’ “just transition”. They must find a way to tax these Read more