Lobby group EEF calls on chancellor to scrap green taxes as part of series of measures which it says will support recovery http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/18/george-osborne-energy-business-chancellor
A PLAN for a massive new opencast coal mine near Edinburgh looks likely to get the green light this week, despite fierce opposition from environmental groups and outrage from local residents. http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/environment/plan-for-opencast-coal-mine-near-capital-set-to-be-approved.22709325
Existing renewable energy hurts economies. We should follow Japan and find cheaper forms of clean power http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/article3924584.ece
By Janet Boyle. A Scots dog owner won a battle to have two wind turbines removed after claiming her pet suffered seizures. The turbines were eventually removed, but it was a victory tinged with sadness. Irene Cardle says her beloved Read more
Fossil fuels have sustained the blows of their detractors and remain unambiguously ascendant. Wind and solar are undone, and unsustainable. When governments try to impose large-scale renewable technologies, they lay waste to nature Non-renewable energy is sustainable; renewable energy is Read more
A HAWICK councillor has been cleared by a watchdog of colluding with SNP colleagues on Scottish Borders Council’s planning committee before giving the green light to two controversial wind farm developments in Berwickshire. http://www.hawick-news.co.uk/news/local-headlines/cranston-cleared-of-wind-farm-collusion-1-3190143
Listeners given a bogus message on Radio 4’s Today programme They were told storms like Typhoon Haiyan are linked to global warming Same claim, which has no scientific basis, echoed by David Cameron http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2508573/How-BBC-turned-catastrophic-crisis-drama-global-warming.html
Plans to dot France with wind farms are facing fierce opposition from critics worried they will blight a landscape that has helped make the country the world’s top tourist destination. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/131117/french-plans-more-wind-farms-fans-controversy