David Ross Highland Correspondent SCOTLAND’S ambitious vision of meeting all demand for electricity with green energy by 2020 is being seriously undermined by the current economic climate and changes in UK energy policy, a watchdog has warned. The Scottish Government’s Read more
Audit Scotland’s gently devastating report, which is published today, shows that the game is up for the Scottish Government’s renewable energy policy. Only one Scottish offshore wind farm has been built*; no others have even been fully consented. No Scottish Read more
A windfarm developer has appealed a decision by Perth and Kinross Council to refuse its application for a nine-wind turbine development it claims will bring £22.5 million of investment into Strathearn. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/strathearn-windfarm-developers-appeal-refusal-decision-1.129490
Scientists have had only limited success persuading us to care about climate change so perhaps it is time to call in the philosophers. That appears to be the approach of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which has engaged a Read more
By Emily Gosden Offshore wind farms may not be built unless subsidies are increased, the government’s official climate change adviser has warned, in the latest blow to the Coalition’s energy policy. The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has written to Read more
Proposals to build two 80-metre wind turbines at Alvah – which attracted more than 200 objections – have been refused by Aberdeenshire Council. John McRobert of The Energy Workshop, Huddersfield, wanted to build the structures at Govel Hill, Stonieley, but Read more
Six-week protest outside a potential fracking site in West Sussex village dealt a blow as eviction order is served http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/balcombe-protesters-to-be-evicted-as-ed-davey-contradicts-david-camerons-claim-that-fracking-boom-can-bring-down-energy-bills-8805483.html
PROPOSALS to build two 80-metre wind turbines at Alvah – which attracted more than 200 objections – have been refused by Aberdeenshire Council. http://www.banffshire-journal.co.uk/News/Wind-turbine-plans-rejected-by-council-09092013.htm