Week 2 of the Cumnock Chronicle’s series on wind farms around New Cumnock. CAMPAIGNERS aiming to stop the creation of more wind farms in and around the “overwhelmed” New Cumnock area have called for a line to be drawn. The Read more
GILLIAN Martin, the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy, recently stated that “we are over halfway on our journey to net zero”. This claim is is wrong. Net zero is achieved by a combination of reducing emissions and then Read more
Perthshire residents are campaigning against a wind farm project which they describe as “the industrialisation of a precious mountain landscape”. The proposed Glen Lednock Wind Farm, on the Invergeldie Estate near Comrie, adjacent to Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park, Read more
I found it interesting that the increase in applications was fuelled by new schemes outside The Highlands though the Highlands still account for a large proportion of Scoping Schemes. The documents are already out of date with the recent arrival Read more
Time to ditch green dreams ON June 13, 2025, the UK Government announced a £500 million investment, paid for by UK taxpayers, to accelerate the development of the UK’S first regional hydrogen transport and storage network. (Thankfully, most likely in Read more
That’s the proposed updates on ETSU-R-97 out for consultation. You can respond as an individual. You don’t have to answer the questions if you don’t want to, just let them know what you think. Closing date is 29 August. The Read more
Turbines are fire risk You have once again highlighted the horrors of raging wildfires (“Wildfires ‘becoming danger to human life’, say gamekeepers battling them”, The Herald, July 1). Several roads in the Carrbridge, Dava, Grantown-on-Spey and Knockando areas are closed Read more