For Argyll

Scotland’s £10million Saltire Prize for innovation in the production of renewable marine energy, announced by First Minister Alex Salmond in April 2008, has attracted 33 registrations of interest from Europe, the USA, Australia, South Africa, India, Mexico, England and from…

Cumbernauld is planning to recycle left-over Christmas sprouts and other food refuse and turn it into green compost and, eventually, electricity powering homes and businesses. Trials will start at the Scottish Water-run Deerdykes Organics plant in the new year.

The Cumbernauld…

Two Danish firms - EVO and Welcon - are in discussions with fellow Danish firm, Vestas, over taking over the wind turbine plant at Campbeltown from which Vestas is to decamp. In the best carpetbagging tradition, Vestas is off with…

For Argyll has campaigned, from the start of interest in tidal energy harvesting, for the potential of the Sound of Islay to be recognised and brought into play as soon as possible.

The Sound was included in the Scottish Government’s early…

A proposal for a small wind farm of 8-12 turbines at Dervaig on Mull, developed by Devaig Community Renewables Trust and supported by the RSPB was rejected by 90-85 votes at a public meeting. By this slender  majority, the North West…

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…

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…

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…