Enterprise Minister Jim Mather has confirmed that he has been in talks for several weeks with a Danish company showing an interest in the Vestas wind turbine plant in Campbeltown.
One hundred workers at the plant were to lose their jobs…
Atlantis Resources Corporation, a major tidal energy developer, has confirmed that it has had talks with Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) over a series of linked projects it is considering on the coast of the Pentland Firth in Caithness. Its…
As we reported recently, Lighthouse Caledonia, the aquaculture industry operator and Argyll employer with several salmon farms and processing plants, announced plans to close its plant at Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis. This would lose the area around 100…
In connection with today’s announcement that ScottishPower is to test and develop three sites for tidal energy development, it is understood that the company is also planning to build a manufacturing hub to produce around 60 1MW machines a year…
We’ve already reported on new Scottish Lib Dem Leader, Tavish Scott’s disappointment at having his photo opportunity in Bournemouth with Argyll favourite, the paddlesteamer Waverley, ruined. The ship’s no-show was due to being delayed after ‘failing to dock’ earlier at…
Argyll and Bute Council held a formal feedback meeting on Friday 5th September to explore ways of resolving the situation in Campbeltown with the proposed closure of the Vestas wind-turbine manufacturing plant out at Machrihanish. Friday’s meeting used a video-conferencing…
If you need a distraction - and, be warned, this can become addictive - try a fantastic ship-tracking website. (You’ll find the link under the ‘Fun’ section in our Links directory, above right.) There’s a drop down map of UK…
Tavish Scott, the Shetland MSP recently elected Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats has quickly engaged with Vestas’s proposed closure of their wind turbine manufacturing plant at Campbeltown. He is asking Scottish Ministers to fly to Denmark in a last-ditch…
The Scottish Government’s Minister for Energy, Jim Mather met in Glasgow yesterday with senior representatives form the Danish firm Vestas which has recently announced plans to close its wind turbine tower manufacturing operation in Campbeltown in Kintyre. The meeting does…
A report commissioned by the Taxpayers Alliance has found that Scotland is overcharged by more than £1 billion annually in green taxes. That is the sum over and above what the Government in Westminster pay back to support schemes to…
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