Interesting Shetland green energy conundrum. Folk on zero hours, low or minimum wages, state pensioners (half the minimum wage rate), folk on the living wage and many just above, now face a doubling or more of their energy bills and Read more…
The £700m “windfall” the SNP-Green government have claimed from the ScotWind auction is “not very much money” at all according to experts. Crown Estate Scotland held an auction on Monday where they sold off a number of seabed plots around Read more…
A second council is being advised to oppose plans for a wind farm stretching across southern Scotland. The local authority in the Borders has already lodged its objection to the 45-turbine Faw Side scheme near Langholm. Now Dumfries and Galloway Read more…
This seems a bit premature. Do they know something we don’t?! No decision has yet been made on Clauchrie WF yet an application for 3.9km, 132kv, trident wood pole overhead line connection with 500m long section of underground cable between Read more…
A leading charity has expressed concerns about the potentially devastating impact of ScotWind on Scotland’s seabirds. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) Scotland says the scale of new offshore wind farms could “accelerate some seabird species Read more…
Fishers have reacted with concern to the ScotWind announcement of 17 lease options to develop Scottish offshore wind farms. Responding to Crown Estate Scotland (CES)’s big reveal, when it named the projects in line to deliver a sea change in Read more…
The following article was written by John Campbell QC by way of an explanation of the Easter Tolmauds court decision which we posted last week. It is attached again for those who missed it. In compliance with its statutory duty Read more…
BP, Shell and SSE Renewables have been selected to build the next generation of Scottish offshore wind farms. Crown Estate Scotland has today announced the outcome of its application process for ScotWind leasing. A total of 17 projects have been Read more…