SAS has commented on the latest DECC press release* about renewable energy jobs and investment. These are overspun and discredited figures which will persuade no one that onshore wind energy is a significant job creator. In fact the very high Read more…
SAS has commented on the launch of consultation on SNH’s revised guidance on windfarm visualisation*. We haven’t see the new draft guidance yet but expect to make a detailed contribution. In the meantime the bible on this subject – and Read more…
SAS has commented on the launch of consultation on SNH’s revised guidance on windfarm visualisation*. We haven’t see the new draft guidance yet but expect to make a detailed contribution. In the meantime the bible on this subject – and Read more…
Hats off to Aileen Jackson, indefatigable anti-turbine campaigner whose lengthy battle against a neighbour’s noisy turbine in East Renfrewshire has just made legal history – and resulted in the turbine’s removal! Her Counsel, John Campbell QC, has just published this Read more…
For the last ten years anti-wind farm campaigners have been attending the annual All-Energy conference in Aberdeen for an invaluable insight into the wind industry’s aspirations for Scotland. We’ve seen enormous change from an event dominated by onshore wind to Read more…
When confronted by complaints about wind farms, the Scottish Government notoriously insists that only the right wind farms in the right places are consented. One way of testing whether the planning system really delivers this outcome is to compare the Read more…
Anti-windfarm campaigners have warned the Scottish Government’s new turbine conservation zones may leave parts of central Scotland, Tayside and Fife at the heart of a feeding frenzy. Scotland Against Spin fears that the region’s unprotected status may see some of Read more…
The decision by Fife Council’s Planning Department to recommend approval for three 67 m turbines beside Kingsmuir airfield has caused shock and alarm among East Neuk residents, pilots and anti-wind farm campaigners. They have warned Councillors that approving the windfarm Read more…