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Landowner’s Penicuik wind farm is blown off course
It has been a turbulent feud over wind turbines, which has set the scion of one of Scotland’s most distinguished landowning families against the owner of a neighbouring country estate, the Edinburgh financier Peter de Vink.
22 commentsExpert visits Holyrood to highlight risks of ‘fracking’
AN internationally acclaimed toxins experts is visiting Scotland next week to highlight the risks of unconventional gas extraction techniques such as “fracking”.
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Comment: Tide needs to turn for wave power industry
The debate over the viability and future of wind power in Scotland is omnipresent. But another form of renewable energy could soon become part of the national energy revolution – wave and tidal energy.
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Farmers furious after latest dog attack mauls 20 sheep
A FARMER has spoken of his distress after discovering eleven of his sheep mauled to death and a further nine badly injured following a dog attack.
8 commentsResearchers want secrets of mussels
A DIVING expedition is under way to uncover the secrets of giant horse mussels on Scotland’s seabed.
Torness Nuclear power station back open to public
TORNESS Nuclear power station has opened to the public for the first time since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in America.
Donald Trump begins wind farm legal challenge
DONALD Trump today launched his legal challenge against the Scottish Government’s decision to give the go-ahead to the controversial offshore wind farm he claims forced him to pull the plug on future investment in his luxury Scottish golf resort.
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Video: Lightning strikes Russian TV tower video
Lightning struck a television tower in Russia’s second city on Monday during a thunder storm, lighting up the sky in a spectacular display.
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Lairds criticised for pocketing wind farm subsidies
THE leader of the Scottish Government review of landownership yesterday pledged to examine ways of redistributing the cash wealthy lairds make from wind farms to benefit the less-advantaged.
48 commentsTavish Scott: Tourism push creates cash conundrum
CROFTERS are lambing. There is no better time of year, at least on a fine morning. The terrible spring made lambing in the southern areas of Scotland a ghastly experience.
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Funding for electric microcar tourism project
THEY might look as though they should be restricted to the golf course. But these open-sided electric microcars will be used to help tourists explore Scotland’s countryside through an environmentally friendly transport scheme.
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Study to uncover secrets of Scotland’s seabed
A diving expedition is under way to uncover the secrets of giant horse mussels on Scotland’s seabed.
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Scots leading way in meeting future energy needs
SCOTLAND is “leading the way” in meeting the world’s energy needs of the future, First Minister Alex Salmond said today, as he opened Europe’s first “world class” electricity grid research centre.
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Windfarm ‘could have impact on Highland Fault’
COUNCIL planners are recommending that controversial plans for a nine turbine wind farm in Perthshire should be refused - because of its impact on the Highland Fault, the distinctive geographical feature which marks the divide the Highland and Lowlands of Scotland.
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Black Widow found in Aberdeen industrial estate
A POTENTIALLY deadly Black Widow spider has been found in a shipment delivered to an industrial unit in Aberdeen.
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Ban on fish discards step closer after EU talks
THE long awaited reform of the discredited Common Fisheries Policy took a “significant step forward” today following marathon talks at a meeting of European Fisheries Ministers in Brussels.
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Cairngorm funicular railway walks plan talks
HIGHLAND councillors are considering proposals to allow guided treks between the Cairngorm funicular railway’s top station and the Cairn Gorm plateau to remain permanently.
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Green energy could bring 10,000 to islands - study
RENEWABLE energy projects could create more than 10,000 jobs on the Scottish islands by 2030, according to a government-commissioned report.
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Oil will last for rest of century - Fergus Ewing
SCOTLAND’S energy minister, Fergus Ewing, has claimed North Sea oil and gas production will continue until the end of this century.
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Bheinn Mhor windfarm proposal raises objections
ANTI-WINDFARM objectors have condemned plans by a renewables firm to build a windfarm next to an iconic Highland beauty spot.
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Scots beaches worst in Britain for bottle litter
SCOTTISH beaches are the worst in Britain for being polluted with discarded plastic drinks bottles.
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EU moving towards sanctions over herring stocks
THE European Union is finally moving towards imposing sanctions against the Faroes and Iceland in the continuing dispute over the Nordic nations’ decision to set their own quotas for the vital pelagic stocks of mackerel and herring.
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Trump to launch legal campaign against Salmond
PROPERTY tycoon Donald Trump yesterday vowed to take Alex Salmond “to hell” as he prepared to launch a legal challenge to the Scottish Government’s support for an offshore wind farm.
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Communities ‘being killed off’ by coal industry
COMMUNITIES are being killed off by the coal industry and councils who have both failed to ensure that abandoned opencast mines are cleared up, residents are warning.
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Fears over land animal loss due to climate change
AS MANY as a third of common land animals could see dramatic losses this century because of climate change, scientists predict.
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Hydro schemes face bans over moss
SCOTTISH Natural Heritage (SNH) is facing a clash with developers over plans to declare dozens of waterfalls off-limits to new schemes to provide hydro-electric power.
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Wind farm targets may be hit by no-go zones
ALEX Salmond will struggle to fulfil his ambitious renewable targets as a result of Scottish Government proposals to increase wind farm-free zones around towns, a leading energy expert has claimed.
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Gerald Warner: Irresponsibility and cynicism lie behind calls to expel Trident
AMONG the ragtag-and-bobtail of Jurassic socialists, fading Blair babes and public-teat sucklings that calls itself “Civic Scotland” it has long been an article of faith that Britain’s nuclear deterrent is “immoral” and the fact that it desecrates Scottish soil is “obscene”.
22 comments‘Prehistoric climate’ alert issued
Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have reached a new milestone – prompting renewed warnings of the “huge risks” of climate change.
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Vatenfall looking to sell stake in Trump wind farm
THE fate of the controversial offshore wind farm which led Donald Trump to pull the plug on future investment in his luxury Scottish golf resort was plunged into uncertainty last night.
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Scottish climate change could wipe out rare birds
Some of Scotland’s rarest birds could be wiped out by the end of the century as a new UK report highlights “profound” climate change in the Highlands, experts have warned.
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Fleets ‘on the brink’ as fish industry makes plea
SCOTTISH fishermen’s leaders today warned that large sections of the whitefish and prawn fleets are “teetering on the brink of survival.”
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Survey begins on Donald Trump opposes windfarm
VITAL test drilling investigations to pave the way for the construction of the controversial offshore wind farm being opposed by Donald Trump got underway today in Aberdeen Bay.
8 comments£100,000 of offer at first green transport prize awards
ELECTRIC bubble cars and cargo bikes to deliver goods in busy cities are among the projects which will compete next week for £100,000 in the first Green Transport Prize awards.
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Coal bosses ‘breaking vows on wildlife, environment’
SCOTLAND’S wildlife and climate change targets are under growing threat from the coal industry’s failure to meet promises on restoring opencast mines, environmentalists have warned.
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Illegal snaring condemned by Scottish gamekeepers
THE Scottish Gamekeepers Association (SGA) has spoken out against illegal snaring, claiming the selfish actions of one individual had brought the industry into disrepute.
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Emaciated and wounded dog prompts SSPCA probe
THE Scottish SPCA has launched an investigation after an emaciated and wounded dog was found collapsed in a street in an Aberdeenshire town.
Scottish independence: Nuclear waste storage quiz
The Scottish Government is being urged to spell out what will happen to spent nuclear fuels and other nuclear materials in Scotland after independence.
24 comments£30m Glasa hydro energy plant given green light
SSE has confirmed it is to proceed with a £30million hydro scheme in the Highlands – the largest to be built in the UK for five years.
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Scotland’s tallest wind turbine gets go-ahead
CONTROVERSIAL plans to build Scotland’s tallest wind turbine were approved by the Scottish Government despite opposition to the “noisy eyesore” from campaigners.
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Scots ‘£430 a year to subsidise English flood insurance’
HOUSEHOLDS in Scotland could be subsidising flood insurance on English properties by as much as £430 a year, according to MSPs.
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‘Active Travel’ walk to work campaign launched
THE Scottish Government yesterday launched an “Active Travel” campaign to encourage Scots to reduce short car journeys and walk to work instead.
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Moray gamekeeper who set illegal snares fined
A MORAY gamekeeper has been fined a total of £1,500 after being convicted of setting illegal snares in a manner likely to cause animals unnecessary suffering.
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Police probe after dog eats nail-filled sausages
POLICE in Moray have launched an investigation after a family’s pet dog had to have emergency surgery after swallowing sausages, deliberately filled with nails.
Fancy swimming with sharks in the Hebrides?
Tourists are being invited to swim with sharks in one of Scotland’s most unusual day trips.
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Pictures: Kingfisher caught in full flight Picture gallery
THESE pictures, from a self-taught wildlife photographer, show a kingfisher hunting its prey in the River Salwarpe.
Experts warn Arctic Ocean turning acidic
THE Arctic ecosystem, already under pressure from record ice melts, faces another potential threat in the form of rapid acidification of the ocean, according to an international study.
11 commentsHeritage strategy for Scottish canals
PLANS to preserve and improve Scotland’s historic canal network have been revealed.
Renewables plan for former oil fabrication yard
DEVELOPERS are seeking the go ahead to turn the former McDermotts Fabrication Yard in the Highlands into a manufacturing ‘super-hub’ for renewables – delivering a second jobs boom for the site.
7 commentsWeather: UK set for mix of sizzle and drizzle
Britain is preparing for a scorching Bank Holiday Monday as temperatures continue to increase across the country.
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