ENERGY Minister Michael Fallon yesterday insisted he was joking when he said armchair supporters of fracking would get a shock when it happened on their rural doorsteps. http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/419681/Fracking-row-Tory-Michael-Fallon-says-I-was-joking
Fracking has driven a rift through the Coalition as the minister in charge of it described Middle England shaking with the sound of drills. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2384618/Fracking-row-splits-apart-Coalition–As-Energy-Minister-says-sound-drills-shake-South.html
THE Duke of Buccleuch has backed objectors to a proposed wind farm planned for the Borders. The application for Windy Edge wind farm seeks permission for 17 turbines to be built on farmland near the historic Hermitage Castle near Hawick. Read more
Planners with Argyll and Bute Council have approved an application to build a 77m-high wind turbine on one of the most beautiful, unspoilt coastlines of the Inner Hebrides. The massive structure, 17m taller than the Scott Monument in Edinburgh, will Read more
By Ryan Crighton Residents living near the site where a north-east peer has launched his fourth attempt to build wind turbines have vowed to fight the scheme once more. Lord Nicol Stephen, a former Liberal Democrat MSP who set up Read more
Only recently, the offshore wind industry was seen as an opportunity to regenerate Germany’s coast. But amid changing political attitudes and spiraling costs, several companies are struggling to survive. Is the wind boom over before it even really began? http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-offshore-wind-industry-goes-from-boom-to-bust-a-914158.html
The debate about shale gas in the UK can get heated, sometimes overly so. This week, I received an anonymous email saying that unless Cuadrilla ceased its activities in the UK, we would soon receive pipe bombs delivered by express Read more
Ignore fracking protests, government tells planners National energy policy more important than local preferences for renewables, says ministry http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/03/ignore-fracking-protests-government-tells-planners