A Scottish government policy designed to encourage datacentres to build in Scotland could lead to a massive volume of carbon emissions being ignored, according to an analysis by a Scottish charity. “Green datacentres” are at the heart of Scotland’s ambitions Read more
SCOOP Hill Windfarm is back on the council’s agenda next week for reasons unknown, with plans to exclude the public from the meeting.The controversial 60-turbine scheme and a battery energy system proposed by Community Windpower Ltd (CWL), five kilometres south-east Read more
This could potentially affect Scotland we are told as the Planning & Infrastructure Act affected us. The Electricity Act, used for OHL and Onshore WF is a UK act and affects Scotland.We’ll have to wait and see. Nothing definite yet. Read more
The Scottish Government says, “Conditions imposed on Section 36 consent/the approval of deemed planning permission can enable many development proposals to proceed where it would otherwise have been necessary to refuse the application.”Many of us know, to our cost, that Read more
Plans for a wind farm near Loch Ryan in the south-west corner of Scotland have been submitted to the Scottish government.Developer Wind Estate wants to build seven turbines up to 200m (650ft) high about three miles (5km) north-east of Cairnryan.The Read more
The Government has privately admitted Ed Miliband’s wind turbines and solar farms are bad for the environment. Astonishingly, it shows for the first time that Labour realise the rush for Net Zero will come at the expense of the environment, Read more
SAS will submit the following at next month’s DPEA Stakeholder Forum. We will update this post if we receive more issues to raise before the deadline of 18 May. The DPEA uses the Objective Connect (“OC”) platform for the lodging Read more
A seven and a half minute video from Dick Bowdler There’s been a lot of talk recently about the dangers of health from wind turbines, probably because of a number of recently published papers.