Southdean’s Facebook page received record viewings for a photograph of century-old beech trees that a wind farm developer wants to rip out. http://www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk/news/fury-over-plans-to-rip-up-village-beech-trees-1-3304753
Vicky Allan This is a tale of two communities and a wind farm in West Lothian. Main picture: Geraldine Hamilton at her home and, above, Stewart McKenna, Kirknewton Development Community Trust Photographs: Steve Cox One, the village of Kirknewton, is Read more
Not heard of Ed Davey? You are forgiven. This fellow may be a Rt Hon, a multiple-red-box wallah, a fellow with a grand private office, spin doctors and attendant lackeys. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2559924/Ed-Davey-From-Quentin-Letts-withering-portrait-Lib-Dem-Minister-week-called-climate-sceptics-diabolical.html
Regulators aren’t keeping up with rapid growth of industry as boat operators ‘ignore safety rules and risk lives of workers’ http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/14/offshore-windfarms-renewable-energy
(UPDATED) There are more than 1000 sites that have or are allowed to have wind turbines. Here’s a few resources to help you find them http://www.tgomagazine.co.uk/viewpoint/is-there-a-wind-farm-planned-near-you
Landowner David Mack applied for permission to erect the turbine at his farm at Cromer Ridge, one of the highest points in Norfolk North Norfolk District Council rejected the plans But a planning inspector overturned the council’s decision But a Read more
MOUNTAINEERING leaders have objected to a wind farm proposed for south-west Scotland. The Mountaineering Council of Scotland, which has 11,800 members, said E.ON’s project would damage the mountain landscape near the planned site close to Carsphairn, Dumfries and Galloway. Plans Read more
Greig Cameron Deputy Business Editor AS someone who has been an adviser to three US presidents, an executive at Google and is now a professor at an elite university, Dan Reicher comes with enough credentials to impress even those used Read more