It would be hard to send a more defensive signal than Vestas’s announcement that it is prepared to meet local representatives - if they travel to the company HQ in Denmark. Key players in the race to retrieve something from the company’s withdrawal from Campbeltown met yesterday in emergency session. Representatives from Argyll and Bute [...]
The announcement yesterday that Vestas was to close its subsidiary company’s operations in wind turbine tower manufacture at Campbeltown was accompanied by news that it is to shift its investment to a development plant in the Isle of Wight. In our earlier piece on this matter we drew attention to the fact that Vestas’s presence [...]
The Danish owners of the Vestas wind turbine tower manufacturing business at Campbeltown on the Mull of Kintyre have just announced that they are to close the facility because it is not making a profit. The announcement comes at a time when Vestas has declared a 67% rise in orders in the last year. The [...]
Representatives from Argyll and Bute Council have presented to Furnace Community Council the final summary report on the feasibility study into the possible construction of a new pier at the village. The appraisal was commissioned by the Council with its partner, Argyll Timber Transport Group. The proposed pier would enable sea transport of harvested timber, [...]
Following the planning consent granted on 7th May by the Mid Argyll, Kintye and Islands Area Committee, the energy company concerned, Novera, have announced that they expect the twenty-turbine A Chruach site WNW of Minard, to be in operation by 2011. When fully operational it will generate 40 to 46MW - enough renewable electricity for [...]
