| Ex MP brands windfarm proposals ‘A waste of time and
energy’ |
| Former MP for the Western Isles, Calum Macdonald, has
labelled two proposed windfarm developments in Lewis ‘a waste of time
and energy’ that the islands cannot afford. |
| Stornoway
Gazette |
| Councillors quit over wind farm |
| Half of Ness Community Council on Lewis have resigned
over plans for a giant wind farm. |
| Scotsman.com |
| Controversial wind farm plan axed |
| A scheme to build nine controversial 340ft (104m) wind
turbines in rural Dorset has been scrapped. |
| BBC |
| More turbines for Novar |
| Sixteen additional turbines - twice the size of the
existing windmills - will be installed at Novar wind farm above Evanton
following the granting of a planning application from N-power Renewables
by the Ross and Cromarty area committee on Monday. |
| Ross-shire
Journal |
| No worries on wind benefits |
| The Highland councillor who is leading community benefit
negotiations for the Novar wind farm extension said this week he was
not concerned that a cash deal had not been struck in writing, before
the granting of planning permission. |
| North
Star |
| Wind power sweeps through Tynedale |
| Towering wind turbines are set to become a common sight
on our skylines as a growing number of windfarm developers turn their
attention to Tynedale. |
| Hexham
Courant |
| Power to the people |
| Mini-power stations in homes which produce electricity
and hot water and export power to the grid will replace many of the
country's giant power generating plants, Malcolm Wicks, the energy
minister, said yesterday. |
The
Guardian
BBC
|
| More wind farms proposed |
| More wind farms could be appearing on the roofs of
council buildings after proposals by town hall bosses. |
| Ham
& High |
| Birds, wind and nuclear power |
| Professional naturalist Colin Simms' concern for birdlife
is shared by South Lakeland Friends of the Earth. |
| this
is the Lake District |
| Notts is plugged in to 'green' power |
| Notts renewable energy specialist Alkane Energy has
connected two electricity generation plants, fuelled by methane captured
from abandoned coal mines, to the national grid. |
| this
is Nottingham |
| DTi hits back at NFU's biofuel claim |
| The Department for Trade and Industry has rebuffed
suggestions that the UK government is fudging the introduction of
the biofulels directive. |
| Farmers
Weekly |
