The head of a monastery on a Scottish island has attacked “money-grabbing” plans to build a wind farm off its coast with turbines as high as the Eiffel Tower. Father Seraphim-Oran Aldea said the MachairWind development would dwarf the nearby Read more
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015) are the UK’s main legal framework for ensuring that construction projects are planned, designed and managed safely. They place clear, enforceable duties on clients, designers, principal designers, contractors and workers to Read more
GEORGE Baxter’s article gushing over Andy Burnham’s “zero carbon” vision (“Onshore wind blows strong to help cut bills and create jobs”, The Herald, August 8th) is no more than a long-winded bedtime story for green energy zealots. As a director Read more
Big article in the Herald today. A PIONEERING group that has brought together community councils to unlock and share renewables wealth has expressed fury at the fact it has been bypassed by developers, who are choosing to create alternative benefits Read more
Artificial intelligence has fuelled a “significant” surge in objections to some of Scotland’s biggest planning applications and prompted the Scottish Government to stop accepting public responses by email. The rules for consultations on major energy projects were changed in January Read more
Onshore wind projects are facing significant delays because of a constitutional quirk that means Scotland is the only part of the UK where abnormal loads need to be escorted by specialist road traffic police officers. In England and Wales, the Read more
DEEPLY controversial plans for a wind farm with turbines higher than London’s Gherkin in an iconic area of Ross-shire look set to spark a formal objection from Highland Council. The Carn Fearna Wind Farm Limited proposal seeks a 50-year permission Read more
Under the Clean Power Action Plan and the connections reform that sits beneath it, only around 700 MW of additional Scottish onshore wind is permitted to connect between 2031 and 2035. Set against more than 10 GW already operating, and Read more