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A well timed article by Mark Hodgson echoing our concerns about the Ecocide Bill.   Are There Two Sides to Ecocide?    

Views are being sought on proposals which would introduce the crime of ecocide into Scots law for the first time  Should causing severe environmental damage be treated as a serious and distinct criminal offence? Are current penalties imposed by courts Read more

Thank you to the Sunday Mail for publishing this very important article.  

What few bill-payers properly understand is where the mountain of cash they shell out each month is ending up. People sometimes wonder why a landowner would want to host a wind farm. The answer, as this court case shows, is Read more

The UK Supreme Court has refused to allow an appeal against the Scottish Government’s award of planning permission for a wind farm on the border between Moray and Aberdeenshire. https://www.northern-scot.co.uk/news/supreme-court-denies-request-to-appeal-against-moray-wind-fa-387356/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLnYXlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHplfxtjH47A3Hns1byJ2-3f8o9WOB3F4NAYv08KXVSAVq0GWXYQEefERtPI2_aem_dXVSHwDAfhA-faElodAhvw

Reform’s threat to tear up government support for wind and solar developers would fall foul of contract law, it has been claimed.  https://dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2025/07/reform-told-green-contracts-would-be-ironclad/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLnYEVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHjFAYPWwyzX3Ruiv8hK-t3Qpf0fBqjy7cci91UMKucMopOzbO99-7SP_6wkc_aem_Z4G9Mw8hmNiP3hk6T0hOOQ

OVO has announced plans to create a new business division, OVO Renewables, to repower the UK’s ageing onshore wind fleet. The energy supplier said the new venture would oversee the redevelopment of existing wind farms using modern technology to extend Read more

Ed Miliband has opened the way for a fleet of new gas-fired power stations to back up Britain’s wind and solar farms. He has told the National Energy System Operator (Neso) – the UK’s grid operator – that by the Read more