A GREAT-GRANDSON of Winston Churchill is leading a battle to save his corner of the English countryside from solar farm developers. Jack Churchill, 38, has launched the Wake Up Wiltshire campaign in his home village of Seend. It is situated Read more
FAMILIES face power cuts at Christmas and New Year because the Government has failed to allow for the predicted Arctic weather, according to the UK’s leading energy supply expert. Professor Ian Fells fears a bitterly cold winter will push the Read more
Local authorities are missing a massive £200 million from the funds they need to clean up the mess made by 32 opencast coal mines across central Scotland, a Sunday Herald investigation has revealed. According to informed industry sources, the cash Read more
It has long been obvious that by far the most delusional element in the Government’s shambles of an energy policy is how it subordinates all else to an obsession with building thousands of hopelessly inefficient and absurdly oversubsidised windmills. This Read more
Here’s some weapons-grade drivel from the Government’s Environmental Audit Committee. (Whose chairman, contrary to my earlier assertion that it was Trougher Yeo, turns out to be some MP you’ve never heard of called Joan Walley) Globally, subsidies for fossil fuels Read more
MPs have voted to reject an amendment to the Energy Bill introduced by the Lords to limit emissions from old coal-fired power stations. Under the proposed change the plants would have been subject to Emissions Performance Standards – which will Read more
Under pressure from the wind-power industry, the Obama administration said Friday it will allow companies to kill or injure eagles without the fear of prosecution for up to three decades. The new rule is designed to address environmental consequences that Read more
Rare birds threat could decimate giant Strathy wind farm plan The developers of a proposed 47-turbine wind farm near Strathy in Sutherland could be forced to reduce that number to only four. This forecast has come from RSPB Scotland, as Read more