For Argyll

The European Union (EU) has granted £5m to a collaborative research project between Scotland and Ireland to develop fuel from marine biomass. The Scottish Association of Marine Sciences (SAMS), based at Dunstaffnage outside Oban in Argyll, will lead the project…

While it’s not yet critical, the numbers of Cormcrakes on Argyll and other west coast islands has fallen this year by 7%. Numbers wll be monitored next year to see if the decline continues or has been arrested.

The success of…

For Argyll has reported on several previous occasions on the Scottish Government’s plan to raise money to put Scotland ahead of the world in measures to combat climate change and to do so by leasing 25% of the national forest…

In an exciting development on Islay, the example of a successful Swedish plant has inspired islanders to start exploring the feasibility of capturing methane as biofuel from farm and distillery wastes.

David Protherough, of Recycling Islay and Jura Group (REJIG - great…

Environment Minister, MIchael Russell, has come out of his corner in no mood to be stopped in the fight against leasing some of Scotland’s forests to raise money to combat climate change.

He has described criticism of the proposal as: ’short-sighted,…

An independent report into Scotland’s chances of meeting the target set by the Scottish Government of drawing 50% of our energy needs from renewable sources by 2020 has been published.

The report was commissioned by the Scottish Council for Development and…

Environment Minister Michael Russell launched the Saving Red Squirrels campaign today (8th December 2008), saying: ‘The red squirrel is one of our most beautiful and valuable native species and Scotland is one of the few sanctuaries it has left. Since its introduction…

Introducing the publication of the new Scottish Climate Change Bill - which received 21,000 responses during its consultation period - Stewart Stevenson, Climate Change Minister, described it as: ‘the most ambitious climate change legislation anywhere in the world’.

The bill proposes…

The issue of lamb mortality in crofting areas flown by the Sea Eagles re-introduced to Scotland has been a contentious one.

Now a meeting between Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), crofters in Skye and Gairloch, the Scottish Crofting Foundation, the Scottish Government and…

For Argyll has recently reported on the proposal to lease 25% of SCotland’s forests for a period of up to 75%. The proposal is that the reveue generated by sich leases wld be used to fund measures to combat climate change.

Environment…