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Islay Energy Trust partners Scottish Power Renewables in Sound of Islay tidal...
Islay Energy Trust has voted – at its AGM – to partner Scottish Power Renewables to progress the Sound of Islay Tidal Energy Project which theTrust has been working on for over a year.Scottish Power’s...
View ArticleThe Beauly-Denny power line and the new realities
The Scottish Government is to approve the £400 million power line from Beauly, near Inverness, south through the Cairngorm National Park to Denny, near Falkirk in the Central Belt.This power line,...
View ArticleLewis and Islay goalposts in Hammerfest HS1000 marine turbine development
Norwegian energy company, Hammerfest, has announced a project to build ten of its HS1000 marine turbines at BiFab’s yard at Arnish in Stornoway in the Isle of Lewis.The turbines whose development model...
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The Times highlights Tiree campaign against Argyll Array offshore windfarm
(Substantial update below) Today’s edition of The Times newspaper highlights the campaign of the objectors on Argyll’s Atlantic Isle of Tiree to the gigantic Argyll Array offshore windfarm to be built...
View ArticleHolyrood talks on Dalmally sub-station between Scottish Power Renewables and...
Jamie McGrigor, MSP, has held talks today (29th February) at Holyrood with representatives of Scottish Power and Scottish Power Renewables – including Scottish Power Renewables’ Offshore Development...
View ArticleMajor environmental groups seriously compromised by wind developers’ cash
One of the most genuinely shocking developments in the disputed push for wind generated energy emerged today with revelations in the Daily Mail that three major Scottish environmental and wildlife...
View ArticlePolice ask for information after Kintyre golden eagle poisoned in Morar
Police are appealing for information after a golden eagle was found dead near Morar in Lochaber in March.A post-mortem conducted by the Scottish Government laboratory of Science and Advice for Scottish...
View ArticleArgyll/Tiree Array zone now subject to ‘area search’
The sea area proposed for the gigantic Argyll [or Tiree] Array offshore wind farm is now to be subject to an area search with a view to part of it being designated a Marine Special Area of...
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For Argyll end of year nominations 2012: a baker’s dozen
Farewell of the year, public service – Clyde Coastguard: We’re starting with this one because it affects Argyll and the rest of a massive sea area of Scotland’s west coast, from the Mull of Galloway,...
View ArticleTiree considering community buy out
The community on Argyll’s Atlantic island of Tiree is starting to examine the viability of a community buy out.This is no hot-flush, emotion-led crusade but a careful examination of options and...
View ArticleAt last – a clear win for the No Tiree Array campaign in the dropping of...
The capable and determined No Tiree Array campaign against the Scottish Power Renewables proposal to construct a gigantic offshore wind farm on the toes of the flat little sunshine isle out in the...
View ArticleA rock and a hard place for Scottish Government on post-indy UK renewables...
[Updated below 7th July] It’s not hard to see why the No Tiree Array campaigners saw off Scottish Power Renewables [SPR] and the Scottish Government on the favoured proposal to lassoo the tiny Atlantic...
View ArticleGiggle factor on the rise as Stornoway guesthouse runs competition to guess...
In a light-hearted burst of serendipity, a Stornoway guesthouse owner , Ali Maclennan, is running a competition, sponsored by Tesco with a £100 voucher for the winner, to guess the date of the actual...
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