On hearing today’s news that SSE is launching a new panel, headed by Scotland’s former first minister Lord McConnell, to oversee around £90m in community funding for areas the company is developing wind farms in, I looked up SSE’s annual report. Great news for shareholders; really bad news for electricity Read more
SAS was delighted to support the official launch of Scientific Alliance Scotland at the Holyrood Hotel in Edinburgh on 27th June. Scientific Alliance Scotland is a new think-tank, (allied to its parent organization, the Scientific Alliance in Cambridge), which has the aim of bringing scientific, evidence-based thinking into policy-making. Scottish Read more
Anti-wind farm campaigners across Scotland are celebrating Fergus Ewing’s decision to refuse the Druim Ba windfarm near Loch Ness. Following a long, expensive and hard-fought campaign, they are delighted that Fergus Ewing has finally agreed with the Public Inquiry Reporter, with Highland Council and with hundreds of objectors that the Read more
Scotland Against Spin is pleased to announce a major national anti-wind protest which will take place on October 19 2013. Building on last year’s successful march and protest outside the SNP conference hall during Alex Salmond’s keynote speech, this year’s event will be bigger and better than ever. In the Read more
Scottish Natural Heritage launched consultation on new guidance for wind farm visualisations on 23rd May and held a workshop at Battleby on 17th June which a representative of SAS attended. There was a good attendance made up of landscape architects, local authority planners, reporters from the Directorate of Planning and Read more
Legal recourse accepted by EU Court of Justice The Court of Justice of the European Union has accepted the recourse presented by the European Platform Against Windfarms (EPAW) (1). The 608 associations composing the platform are hailing this as a first victory in their fight towards holding the European Commission Read more
Scottish Wild Land Group calls for Independent Energy Commission and wild land designation The Scottish Wild Land Group today published a special issue of its magazine, Wild Land News, dedicated to the issue of wind energy. The issue, ‘Wind farms gone wild: is the environmental damage justified?’, calls into question Read more
A Caithness Wind Farm has launched a competition to name a turbine along with a drawing, poem, painting or story to explain the name suggestion. The competition is open to children between 5 to 12 year olds and the competition winners will have a plaque made for each of the Read more