The organisation ‘Planning Democracy’ which campaigns for a fair and inclusive planning system in Scotland has launched a petition of the Government seeking the right of appeal for communities. Under current planning rules, if a mine, power station or large-scale housing scheme is rejected, the developer can appeal the decision. Read more
Dr Connor was contacted by a number of East Renfrewshire residents after their MSP, Ken MacIntosh, responded to their concerns about the effect on Public water supplies affected by the Whitelee windfarm development. Mr MacIntosh forwarded to these constituents a reply from Scottish Water stating their position. Dr Connor felt Read more
Below is a presentation by Dr Rachel Connor who highlights the serious issue of wind farm construction potential to pollute public and private water supplies and the severe health impacts this can have.
In our last newsletter, John Mackay (author of Scotland’s Beauty at Risk) took a look at the shortcomings of the currently available data sets on turbine numbers in Scotland. Having seen the inability/unwillingness of the Scottish Government to provide accurate data on how widespread wind turbine developments are, and failings Read more
Sustainable Shetland is a campaign group formed in March 2008 in response to a proposal for a large scale wind farm in Shetland. We believe such large industrial projects are damaging to our environment. We want to support social, environmental and economic sustainability in Shetland. We want to see sustainable Read more
If you feel exhausted to receive yet another email from our campaign, think how we feel in Straiton, where yet another of the five major windfarm applications near our village has gone in to the Energy Consents Unit of the Scottish Government. This one is Glenmount, planned by RWE (Npower). Read more
Dear All Just a short while ago Falk Renewables were refused permission for a wind farm on iconic Ben Wyvis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Wyvis). They didn’t appeal because of the strength of public feeling against it. That doesn’t stop other developers chancing their luck and here we have two. Apologies for the late Read more
Since 2008, the high prevalence of acquired flexural limb deformities front was observed in the Lusitano stud farm. This work aims to evaluate this problem by reporting the results from tissue alterations in the affected animals as well as environmental conditions and management changes, which could have led to this Read more