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All posts tagged in: wind farms

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SPR’s Beinn an Tuirc windfarm community benefit funds one renewables education post – to what end?

Students returning to schools in Argyll and Bute for the new academic year will find a new Education and Skills Development role in ...

3 years ago
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Government brings strategic clarity to energy policy in shortening wind farm subsidy lifespan

As of last Thursday, 18th June 2015, the Department of Energy and Climate Change [DECC] requires proposed wind farms,  ...

3 years ago
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Economic case for more national parks in Scotland – obstructed by Scottish Government

And it’s not as if we don’t have either the room or the natural resources for more national parks. ...

3 years ago
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Why the Scottish Goverment was very wrong on fracking moratorium

Having been clearly well disposed to fracking – and having specifically asked for [and been given] the power to license it ...

3 years ago
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SSE backs Sunart Community Renewables micro hydro scheme

A large-scale renewables corporation is helping a small community renewables initiative. ...

3 years ago
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Scottish Government Reporter rejects wind farm scheme on widely applicable grounds

Michael Cunliffe, a Scottish Government Reporter at the Directorate for Planning and Environmental Appeals, a few days ago ...

4 years ago
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Differences on early imposition of new and contradictory planning controls on hill tracks

The Scottish Government has announced the introduction of new planning controls to require advance notification ...

4 years ago
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SNH publishes guidance for standardised visualistions of proposed wind farms

Scottish Natural Heritage [SNH] has today published updated guidance on the visual representation of wind farms ...

4 years ago
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SNH publishes upgraded guidance on wind farm siting and design

Yesterday, 22nd May 2014, Scottish Natural Heritage [SNH] published revised guidance on siting and designing wind farms ...

4 years ago
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Mountaineering Council of Scotland survey shows extent of negative impact of wind farms

A survey conducted by the Mountaineering Council of Scotland amongst hillwalkers and climbers ...

4 years ago
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RSPB Scotland calls for a new independent body to regulate the open cast coal industry

RSPB Scotland is this week calling for the creation of a new, independent body to ensure that the open cast coal industry ...

4 years ago
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Andrew Argyle: Ruth Wishart’s ‘Chicken LIttle’ moment

I couldn’t stop myself from smiling at Ruth Wishart’s heart-rending tale in last Thursday’s, 9th January, ...

4 years ago
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Argyll’s successful anti-wind farm campaigner making presentation to Holyrood conference

Christine Metcalfe from Loch Avich, a determined and strategic campaigner against wind turbines, ...

4 years ago
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The bunkum factor: Scotland hosts World Forum on Natural Capital

The World Forum on Natural Capital will be the first major global conference devoted ...

4 years ago
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SNH launches new fast email reporting of bird strikes at wind turbines

A new email reporting system has been launched by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) to make it easier for people to report ...

4 years ago
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RSPB says Flow Country wind farm ‘one of the most worrying we’ve ever seen’

RSPB Scotland, the country’s biggest nature conservation charity, has formally objected ...

4 years ago
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Action from Argyll proves game-changer in wind farm consents for Scottish and UK governments

A ruling with force in international law that will reverberate across the UK, has been born from ...

5 years ago
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Robert Trythall: Aarhus Convention developments

The latest development with the EU Court of Justice acceptance of a legal challenge issued by EPAW [European Platform Against ...

5 years ago
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SNH releases research results on wind turbines and geese

Three new pieces of research released by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) this week ...

5 years ago
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SNH publishes new map of Scotland’s wild land

today, 30th April and for the first time in the UK, a map showing the main areas of wild land in Scotland ...

5 years ago
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Campbeltown on 2013 schedule for summer cabinet meetings

The Scottish Government is continuing its custom of making something of a royal progress ...

5 years ago
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Scotland against Spin [wind turbines, that is] ask for petition signatures

3,100 have already signed this Scotland Against Spin petition and today is the last day ...

5 years ago
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‘Scotland needs a national renewables spatial planning policy…’

This sane analysis has emerged from Highland Council’s inspirational demonstration ...

5 years ago
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Scottish Conservatives take realistic approach to future energy provision

Yesterday, the Scottish Conservatives, through their leader, Ruth Davidson MSP and ...

5 years ago
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Community Land Scotland calls for new land rights – but what are the downsides?

Community Land Scotland has just submitted evidence to the Land Reform Review Group ...

5 years ago
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Senior academic raises serious questions about wind power – job creation, cost, performance and policy

Professor Gordon Hughes, a Professor of Economics at Edinburgh University, specialising ...

5 years ago
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Glasgow University energy expert says Scotland will have higher electricity prices because of focus on wind

Professor Paul Younger, an energy engineering academic at Glasgow University, has said ...

5 years ago
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Guardian Poll shows large majority not prepared to pay more for green energy

On Friday 23rd November The Guardian reported the results of a poll ...

5 years ago
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Herald exclusive on UK Energy Minister looking to limit onshore wind

Today [30 October] The Herald is carrying an exclusive story saying that the UK Energy ...

5 years ago
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Divisions open on wind farms as VisitScotland takes a stand

The Sunday Post recently concluded a very useful exercise someone needed to do ...

5 years ago
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Mail exclusive on advance payment of turbine shut-down subsidies

How often does the necessarily conservative Met Office get it a little wrong? ...

6 years ago
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Night convoys of turbine parts on A83 and A816 for up to 10 weeks from 24th September

Starting on Monday 24th September and running for 8-10 weeks  wind turbine components ...

6 years ago
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Developers target Scottish Government as easiest route to large windfarm consents

We have information that developers now see Scotland as the most profitable area for subsidy picking ...

6 years ago
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Snapberry IV at Taynish Piggery

Finally we got there – after a few more misadventures amongst which was an invasion ...

6 years ago
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No Tiree Array on basking sharks, night time visuals and divergent wind subsidy regimes between Scotland and Westminster

The knowledgeable, effective and determined No Tiree Array campaign – resisting ...

6 years ago
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More melt down in wind ‘industry’ as global giant Vestas hits serious debt burden

Kintyre has, of course, seen it all before with Vestas decamping and Skykon failing, ...

6 years ago
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Pilots concerned on wind farm generated air turbulence

A new take on the impact of wind farms comes from commercial pilots ...

6 years ago
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Double standards in Buddhist commune’s sale of Tharpaland to Scottish Power for wind farm?

A Buddhist group running a retreat at Tharpaland in Dumfries and Galloway, has conducted ...

6 years ago
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Fife Council joins Aberdeenshire in asking for suspension of wind farm applications

Recent media coverage on renewables has focused on ...

6 years ago
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Kintyre’s Wind Towers signs Memorandum of Understanding with Burcote wind

It was announced today that Wind Towers, Kintyre’s manufacturer of wind turbine towers – ...

6 years ago
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