Humans create a lot of noise in the ocean – from sonar and seismic exploration, to pile-driving when building wind farms. But how might this affect sea life? Thousands of whales and dolphins die every year after becoming stranded on Read more…
By Mark Williamson Group Business Correspondent SCOTTISH Hydroelectric owner SSE has passed a milestone in a project to harness the potential to generate renewable energy in the Shetland area by awarding contracts to build a subsea transmission link between Read more…
FULL construction work on an electricity converter station and substation at Upper Kergord is expected to start early next year, according to developer SSEN. Enabling works are due to begin at Kergord towards the end of August 2020. It comes Read more…
Some information requested by members at the DPEA Stakeholders’ Meeting on 31 July 2020, is laid out below. It shows the details of cases received and decisions issued during the Covid 19 situation and comparisons with the last two years. Read more…
One of Britain’s biggest wind power developers has called on the government to scrap the limit on its next offshore wind subsidy auction to help power a green economic recovery, claiming it will not lead to a rise in energy Read more…
Former chairman of campaign group Sustainable Shetland (SuS), Billy Fox, reflects on the rapid developments of recent weeks that have seen all the missing pieces of the Viking Energy wind farm jigsaw fall into place at an unprecedented speed. Fox Read more…
I’d like to say thank you to Aileen Jackson and Rachel Connor for representing SAS at the DPEA Stakeholders’ Meeting on 31 July. The matters raised by Stakeholders’ were Virtual consultation – Aileen Jackson (SAS) Housing Land – Clare Symonds Read more…
Rural communities are sick and tired of becoming roadkill for the wind industry, and that includes the nomadic Sami – who graze and herd reindeer across northern Europe’s frozen tundra, ranging across the north of Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Read more…