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Several areas in Britain will see electric pylons installed Areas under threat include the Scottish Highlands and the Lake District More than 200 miles of pylons may be built in the UK in ten years http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2533805/The-desecration-Britain-This-stunning-Lake-District-view-set-lost-blighted-monstrous-new-super-pylons-soon-scar-300-miles-countryside-hook-green-energy-new-wave-wind-farms.html

By John Phelps City experts believe we should be in for an easy ride this year as we launch our new portfolio of six shares for 2014 in an attempt to beat the performance of the FTSE 100 share index Read more…

The debacle in the Antarctic ice is probably the largest setback for global warming campaigners since Climategate scandal in 2009. http://www.thegwpf.org/ft-antarctic-debacle-biggest-setback-campaigners-climategate/

Congress failed to extend generous tax credits to wind power producers this year after conservatives spent months campaigning to let the subsidies die. http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/02/congress-allows-wind-tax-subsidies-to-fizzle-out/

More than £5.2 million in loans have been written off by the Department of Energy and Climate Change over the past two financial years after companies given advances for energy efficiency projects went into administration. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/10550350/Green-loans-worth-5m-written-off.html

Anna Gault A VIEW towards the world’s oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse could be “ruined” by a massive windfarm dwarfing the historic tower, planners fear. Turbines planned for 10 miles off the Angus coast would be five times the size of Read more…

It is welcome news that self-catering staycations are growing in popularity (“Self-catering holidays in Scotland prove increasingly popular”, The Herald, December 30) and it is to be hoped that the wilder proponents of wind farms at all costs will take Read more…

IT was more by luck than judicious planning that Andrew Jamieson, chief executive of the Glasgow-based Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (ORE), was available for interview on the day George Osborne delivered his Autumn Statement. http://www.heraldscotland.com/business/people/offshore-renewable-energy-catapult-is-ready-for-action.1388753614