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Councillors yesterday approved plans to erect four new wind turbines in Moray. https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/moray/399128/moray-councillors-approve-new-windmills/

Wind farm developers receive more than £115,000 in subsidy for every person they employ in the UK, new analysis shows. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/11224262/Wind-farm-owners-get-115000-subsidy-for-UK-every-job-they-create.html

I NOTE with interest your editorial concerning continued use of fossil fuels. However laudable your aspiration may be in principle, I’m afraid that we are a long way from replacing fossil fuels with renewables and this certainly will not happen Read more

By Jane Candlish A conservation charity has appealed to Highland councillors to change their minds on plans for two controversial windfarms in Sutherland. The Scottish Government is asking the local authority to review its previous response on the Glencassley and Read more

The John Muir Trust is urging Highland Council’s North Planning Applications Committee to object today to proposals to build two new windfarms in Sutherland – one of which is on land owned by Mohammed Al-Fayed, an Egyptian businessman who formerly Read more

HELENSBURGH Community Council has voted in favour of supporting the proposed wind farm earmarked for the hills above the town. http://www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2014/11/10/515157-wind-farm-received-community-council-backing/

MEMBERS of Scottish Borders Council’s planning committee have delayed making a decision on a wind farm extension – to allow a former Lord Lieutenant get some sleep. http://www.peeblesshirenews.com/news/borders/articles/2014/11/11/515352-sleepless-concerns-prevent-wind-farm-decision/

NEWS that a company wants to extract a form of gas from under the Firth of Forth after a huge deposit of coal was found there has exasperated environmental groups, and understandably so. The product, syngas, can be used for Read more