For Argyll

We’d decided to put off our first Awards scheme because of the current recession. Then we thought that everybody needs as much fun and encouragement as possible these days - so - here are the recession-proof, essential ForArgyll Awards. No…

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…

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…

Cairndow’s Our Power, affiliated to the Here We Are Centre (HWA) has already been hitting the headlines for its success with its first renewable energy scheme, a community-owner biomass energy generation scheme.

It has now had more success, winning the Royal Bank of…

Marine Current Turbines - which has already deployed a similar tidal energy system in Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough, has confirmed its intention to apply to the Crown Estate for a lease on an area in the Pentland Firth. It wants to…

Cairndow’s Our Power Community Interest Company (CIC), in Mid Argyll, has been shortlisted by Scottish Renewables Gree Energy Awards for the Best Community Initiative, sponsored by EON Ltd.

Our Power, part of the Here We Are initiative at Cairndow, set up the…

The Pentland Firth, between the north coast of the Scottish mainland the the Orkney Islands holds six of the top ten UK sites for tidal energy. The First Minister, Alex Salmond, has described it as ‘the Saudi Arabia of renewable…

[ November 18, 2008; 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. ]

Starting at 10.00am on Tuesday 18th November in The George Hotel in Inveraray, there will be a Public Enquiry to examine the issue of the wind farm planned for Stachain, near the Dam up in Glen…