The European Union is paying green campaign groups millions of pounds effectively to lobby itself. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/10532853/European-Union-funding-90m-green-lobbying-con.html
Documents submitted to Department of Energy and Climate Change raise questions regarding future energy policy http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/21/nuclear-plants-energy-plans
A COMPANY involving two major donors to the pro-Union Better Together campaign has been accused of trying to shortchange a Highlands community out of millions of pounds. http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/referendum-news/no-vote-donors-caught-in-wind-farm-payments-row.23013322
The Scottish Government is to hold a summit on the crisis over developing large windfarms on the islands. There are serious fears that developers will walk away because the returns will not be so lucrative. It follows the UK government’s Read more
David Cameron has called on European leaders to press ahead with fracking after seeing off the threat of new EU restrictions on the industry. http://www.thegwpf.org/go-ahead-fracking-brussels-vows-regulation/
Power-packed returns as wind and solar power nets Guinness Alternative Energy 11% gains http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/dec/21/investing-windfall-best-investment-fund-wind-solar
Magnus Gardham Political Editor THE last week before Holyrood’s Christmas break is always a headache for political journalists. It is not that MSPs are not busy, but the mad scramble to clear the decks before the halls can be decked Read more
Gordon Currie A COMPANY working on one of Scotland’s largest wind farm projects has been fined £32,000 after a worker lost a leg in a horrific accident. The sub-contractor admitted a catalogue of failures which led to the accident which Read more