We have been busy with the events and meetings across Scotland in the run up to the Planning Review consultation deadline. I hope your campaign group or Community Council are also submitting a response. https://consult.scotland.gov.uk/planning-architecture/a-consultation-on-the-future-of-planning/ Attached is the Planning Democracy guide to the consultation to use and share with your Read more
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We may be heading for a record number of delegates in Rotterdam. This year there will be more time for discussion – seven hours in total within the oral sessions and another five hours of workshops and poster presentation. And that does not include breaks. But that still gives Read more
The reduced rate for early bookings for Rotterdam closes on 12th March. After that the full rate applies. You can book now at https://www.windturbinenoise.eu/content/conferences/1-wind-turbine-noise-2017/book/? You can see the programme highlights at https://www.windturbinenoise.eu/content/conferences/1-wind-turbine-noise-2017/2017-programme/ We will have a more detailed programme in a couple of weeks.
SAS supporters may remember June and Ed Hall’s problems with their neighbour’s noisy turbine. We highlighted their plight in our Newsletter two years ago (see below). An abatement notice was served and the turbine no longer operates and will shortly be removed completely. Ed and June complained to the Ombudsman Read more
Poison wind power – the shocking environmental damage they don’t want you to see. https://www.todaytonightadelaide.com.au/stories/poison-wind
Dear Supporters, Some of you may remember the story late last year about Helen Douglas, the Perthshire hill shepherdess who took up the cudgels for the Scottish wildcat against a wind farm developer at Tullymurdoch. Tullymurdoch is one of the last remaining territories for a species which is on the Read more
One summer evening I was walking through long grasses on the face of the hill opposite my cottage. A striped wildcat kitten shot from underneath my left foot. The only other occasion I have seen a live wildcat, she was sunning herself in a hollow. I watched her through binoculars Read more