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by Stuart Gillespie A windfarm development looks set to get the go-ahead despite 50 objections. And the council’s own landscape architect, as well as environmental standards, have also called for the 11-turbine Loch Hill Windfarm near Dalry to be booted Read more

A wind farm firm removed all the boxes containing its planning paperwork just three days after lodging them with Scottish Borders Council. A council spokesman confirmed that energy firm Infinis deposited its application for seven turbines at Cummings Hill, south Read more

Global warming has shrunk. The Arctic ice cap has grown. Scientists gathering this week face a struggle to persuade sceptics about the scale of climate change to come, writes Jonathan Leake http://www.thegwpf.org/sunday-times-panic/

The government has billed its Green Deal as “the most ambitious home improvement programme since the second world war”, but it has now been revealed that just 12 homeowners are making repayments through its finance package for energy-efficient work carried Read more

You’ve got to hand it to the climate sceptics. Over the last years they seem to have been winning the battle for public opinion. A new survey shows that the proportion of Britons who believe the world’s climate is not Read more

Scientists working on a landmark UN report on climate change to be published this week are at loggerheads over their explanation for why the earth’s surface temperature has stopped rising as rapidly as they previously predicted. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/10325562/Row-over-IPCC-report-as-nations-try-to-hide-lack-of-climate-change.html

A windfarm development looks set to get the go-ahead despite 50 objections. http://www.dgstandard.co.uk/galloway-news/news/2013/09/19/windfarm-opposition-to-be-ignored-51311-33860371/