The John Muir Trust, an environmental campaign group dedicated to protecting wild land has published a map which highlights the saturation of wind farms across Scotland, making wind farms viewable from up to 60% of Scotland. “Although our primary aim is to protect wild land, this map as a whole Read more…
Wind Farms Noise – The sacrifice of the rural minorities is the presentation by Mike Stigwood delivered to delegates attending the Scotland Against Spin conference, held on the 24th November in Stirling.
Scottish Natural Heritage launched consultation on new guidance for wind farm visualisations on 23rd May and held a workshop at Battleby on 17th June which a representative of SAS attended. There was a good attendance made up of landscape architects, local authority planners, reporters from the Directorate of Planning and Read more…
Today the Scottish Government boosted the subsidies for innovative offshore wind generation. A new band set at 2.5 ROCs is aimed at supporting generation from offshore test and demonstration sites deploying innovative, new to market turbines. The second new band set at 3.5 ROCs will be for pilot projects consisting Read more…
Linda Holt, spokeswoman for Scotland Against Spin commented on the story about RES pioneers wind farm compensation scheme for homeowners* as referred to in today’s UK Government announcement on more community benefit for local communities The local energy discount scheme being flaunted by Renewable Energy Systems is another sop to Read more…
Protecting the Scottish Landscape Inverness 23rd March 2013 On a bitterly cold day in Inverness, individuals, campaigners, and environmental protection groups converged at the SNP conference in Inverness to hand over a petition to urge the Government to Stop the reckless siting of wind turbines in Scotland’s scenic landscapes. The Read more…