BRUCE McIntosh (“Wind power may be responsible for £200m of constraint payments”, Letters, May 1) is wrong to suggest that payments to electricity generators to switch off are due to increases and decreases in wind power output. This is evidenced Read more
Britain will be told to get fracking faster for shale gas when the House of Lords economy committee publishes its report this week http://www.telegraph.co.uk/financialservices/utilities/Business-energy/10806607/Fracking-EU-red-tape-threat-to-energy-boom.html
The true cost of the massive expansion of wind farms in England can today be revealed by a special Sunday Post investigation. http://www.sundaypost.com/news-views/uk/special-report-the-true-cost-of-our-wind-farms-1.350021
Much attention was paid to the vote by a huge majority of MPs for the HS2 project, the main objections to which are that it will cost a staggering £50 billion and cause immense environmental damage, to much less useful Read more
By Christopher Rae Plans for a wind turbine near a historic burial cairn in rural Aberdeenshire have been thrown out by government ministers. The plans for a 260ft structure at Mains of Melrose farm at Gamrie, near Banff, were approved Read more
ENERGY giant SSE is being forced to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds to fix the “Beauly Buzz”. The company was issued with a noise abatement notice in February to tackle a low-frequency humming sound from the Wester Balblair sub-station Read more
David Ross Highland Correspondent The controversial owner of the 26,800-acre Pairc Estate on Lewis has welcomed what appears to be the final chapter in the 11-year saga of the proposed community buyout of his land. It had looked as though Read more
By Laura Paterson BUCKIE is getting ready to cash in on a multibillion-pound Moray Firth green energy project. The construction of more than 180 turbines up to 650ft tall will form the UK’s second-largest windfarm. The first minister was in Read more