Feasibility study for Irish Sea power grid
Efforts to build an offshore electricity transmission network linking Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland have moved forward significantly. RPS Group have been awarded a contract to examine the...
View ArticleKenny Logan tries to kick Beauly-Denny line into touch
Kenny Logan thinks as well as he dances – engagingly but without connecting up the limbs of an argument.Logan today publicly joined the ranks of the Beauly-Denny power line protesters. In the best of...
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Bute 2020
They do a good line in ‘grand’ on Bute. Start with the essential elegance of the Victorian watering hole of Rothesay, sweeping spaciously and long around the bay, climbing gently up the hill...
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Saltire Prize opens for applications
No small prize this – the biggest Government innovation prize in the world, Scotland’s Saltire Prize offers £10 million to innovators from anywhere in the world bringing forward approaches to...
View Article£13 million for marine energy projects –£560,000 for Sound of Sanda
Energy Minister and Argyll’s MSP, Jim Mather, has just announced a total of £13 million funding to support five marine energy development projects.One of the five is in Argyll, with Ocean Flow Energy...
View ArticleScotland in van of European Good Practice Wind Project
Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism and Argyll’s MSP, Jim Mather, has launched in Glasgow Europe’s Good Practice Wind Project which Scotland is to lead.Its purpose is to increase the...
View ArticleMcGrigor reply from Mather on Rok and Skykon situation in Kintyre
Highlands and IsIands MSP, Jamie McGrigor, wrote to Jim Mather, Argyll and Bute’s MSP, expressing concern on the multiple impacts n Campbeltown and Kintyre of the cash flow problems at Skykon and the...
View ArticleQuestionable call from Energy Minister for Scots to stock up on heating fuel now
Energy Minister Fergus Ewing today called on Scots to stock up on heating fuel to make sure they don’t get caught out at Christmas, as some did last year.At one level this is no more than common...
View ArticleCaithness wind farm rejection
Fergus Ewing, the Scottish Government’s Energy Minister, has rejected plans submitted by Spittal Hill Wind Farm Ltd.This rejection follows a public inquiry into the proposal held after Highland...
View ArticleSix Ministers called to Parliament to account for ‘not credible’ climate...
And this unprecedented move starts today, 27th February 2013. Six Scottish Government Ministers have been called to Parliament to explain their plans to reduce Scotland’s emissions – plans which the...
View ArticleRobert Trythall: Aarhus Convention developments
The latest development with the EU Court of Justice acceptance of a legal challenge issued by EPAW [European Platform Against Windfarms], indicates that the implications of the Aarhus Convention to...
View ArticleGrangemouth: facts, consequences and issues
Today the Unite Union has performed an about turn in conceding to the position of Ineos, owners of the Grangemouth petrochemical plant and its associated oil refinery.This is an admission of an initial...
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Oil, the North Sea and Scottish independence: The North Sea
This is the third in a series of researched articles on the oil and gas industry, the situation in the North Sea and the relation of this overall picture to a potentially independent Scotland.We are...
View ArticleTiree takes its wholly unable power situation straight to government
Argyll’s Atlantic island of Tiree is well used to fending for itself and is markedly robust in its ability to do so – self-reliance being the necessary characteristic of island life.Tiree has never...
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...
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MACC funding award to maximise renewable energy at Machrihanish site
The Machrihanish Airbase Community Company [MACC] has been awarded funding to explore renewable energy development at its site at the former Machrihanish airbase o the Mull of Kintyre, west of...
View ArticleFused controversies: the Viking Energy windfarm and the sovereignty of Shetland
Stuart Hill is a man with an overriding mission in life. He describes this himself n his website as: ‘… to challenge the UK government to explain where their perceived authority in Shetland comes...
View ArticleKintyre consortium misses out on Local Energy Challenge Fund
A Kintyre consortium has been unsuccessful in their application for Phase 2 of the Local Energy Challenge Fund.The consortium of 9 community projects [in which Machrihanish Airbase Community Company...
View ArticleNational conversation on fracking parks the issue until after 2016 Scottish...
Just as the fracking issue was heating up, Energy Minister Fergus Ewing stepped in today to cool it down at this electorally inconvenient time. He announced a ‘National Conversation’ on the issue.This...
View ArticleGovernment brings strategic clarity to energy policy in shortening wind farm...
As of last Thursday, 18th June 2015, the Department of Energy and Climate Change [DECC] requires proposed wind farms, in order to qualify for the Renewables Obligation grace period beyond March 2016,...
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