TODAY, The Herald on Sunday can reveal the fossil fuels sector has lost 50,000 jobs in Scotland over a decade, with low-carbon jobs only rising by 2,500. SCOTLAND’S oil and gas industry is estimated to have lost tens of thousands Read more…
Milking our taxes IT is indeed galling to read that foreign governments are to make millions from a “world-first” Scots wind farm (“Japan and Italy to make millions from ‘world-first’ wind farm in Scotland”, May 5). The Scottish Government has Read more…
Exclusive: Campaign group Scotland Against Spin have shed doubt on why the Scottish Government overturn so many wind farm rejections as they net a pretty penny from taxes and domestic rates from developers. https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/snp-ministers-conflict-interest-row-32782202?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0abF49_cpf68SCDz_jn4WCuEuo9Ok-fy2aXlBcxtDa4zVhAQMx3uyd72k_aem_ASuXWqcnsnvxMqlmo-8Fhd2Oi66FLSKOkRO4OW6eLGAxpcjjfMd4hsp9xOp7cDNU_5n9xg6Ba9IFhpNL-Fo9q_j6
A Scottish Government quango has commissioned the destruction of more than 17 million trees in the last 24 years in order to build wind farms on public land. The Scottish Government has been blasted after it was revealed that more Read more…
Work has stopped on a section of the Viking Wind Farm site in Shetland after a landslide. SSE said the peat slip happened in an area of hillside at Upper Kergord in the centre of the islands on Tuesday afternoon. Read more…
Plans for a new Caithness wind farm have prompted a national campaigner to warn of the “misery and strife” that can arise when communities become divided over renewable energy developments. Aileen Jackson, of Scotland Against Spin, highlighted the “striking” similarities Read more…
The Japanese and Italian governments stand to gain millons from a profitable stake in plans for what has been touted as the world’s largest floating windfarm in Scotland hailed by the outgoing First Minister as a project to “cement” the Read more…
The renewable energy company planning Swarclett Wind Farm has been accused of taking a “dismissive” attitude over the potential impact on birdlife Members of the campaign group No to Swarclett claim wind turbines will drive curlews away, “a tragedy for Read more…