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Community representatives in Thurso claim grassroots views and concerns are being blanked in decisions taken over major wind energy and associated power line upgrades in the far north. They cite Highland Council’s approval earlier this month of the [major new electrical Read more

All jobs have been lost at a Scottish wind turbine firm, which has gone into liquidation due to “severe cash flow challenges”. https://news.stv.tv/west-central/all-jobs-lost-at-scots-wind-turbine-firm-as-liquidators-appointed?fbclid=IwY2xjawOxLWJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETA0QjExV0ZZSkxCY0pienNxc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHkxHgMG307qddXN7yBdNNVMrOt4YjCLg_AobneViH9DFsLl9RBWHdkVC4T8K_aem_xBC1dYED6jcgJ9V7qJsmrA

Scottish ministers have been called to intervene in a wind farm row and order a public inquiry amid what campaigners have described as an “escalating crisis of confidence in the energy consents system”. Communities in the Borders have been anticipating Read more

The online meeting of the DPEA Stakeholder Forum was held yesterday (16 December).  Aileen Jackson and Rachel Connor represented Scotland Against Spin.  The main points of the meeting are summarised in the attached document (below) taken from Rachel and Aileen’s Read more

BRITAIN recorded a new wind output record earlier this month while Viking, as well as a number of other large wind farms, collected constraint payments for standing idle. On Friday 5 December between 5.30pm and 6pm, a new record of Read more

A beauty spot in the Highlands could soon be surrounded by over 200 “mega” wind turbines as tall as Arthur’s Seat. Energy giants are hoping to build 231 wind turbines in the Kyle of Sutherland, which would leave residents in Read more

A planning application to build a nine-turbine wind farm near a Ross-shire village has been met with an objection from the Highland Council. The local authority has lodged its opposition to the proposed Carn Fearna wind farm, to be situated Read more