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
A SUTHERLAND crofting community is entering the new year amid friction over a planned wind turbine which it is feared will be a blot on the landscape and a turn-off for visitors. http://www.northern-times.co.uk/News/Fears-turbine-will-be-a-blot-on-the-landscape-03012014.htm
Climate experts say that global warming is melting sea ice faster than expected, which is why the poles currently have the most sea ice ever measured for the date. http://www.thegwpf.org/reality-check-global-sea-ice-area-largest-recorded/
Scotland’s Energy Minister Fergus Ewing has renewed his call for the UK Energy Minister, Michael Fallon, to ensure at least some of the coal levies raised from coal produced in Scotland be made available to restore opencast sites in Scotland. Read more