No Tiree Array on basking sharks, night time visuals and divergent wind...
The knowledgeable, effective and determined No Tiree Array campaign – resisting the proposed and massive ‘offshore’ wind farm (starts only 3 miles out) wrapping around the island’s south and west...
View ArticleWhy does most media coverage of fracking play down the core issue?
A front page article in today’s – 1st December 2012 – edition of The Independent, supported by information from government emails obtained by Greenpeace under Freedom of Information, has thrust the...
View ArticleFormer Wood Group Chair to lead review of oil and gas industry
UK Energy Secretary, Ed Davey announced this morning that the retired Chair of the Aberdeen-based Wood Group, the oil industry services specialist, is to lead a major review of the oil and gas...
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Andrew Argyle: IPCC Cools on Global Warming
Few subjects are so controversial and arouse such hostility between debaters as global warming and it’s ‘antidote’, renewable energy. The arguments are complex and many books have been written with...
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...
View ArticleThe Portsmouth side of the shipbuilding saga
Last night’s Question Time on BBC One saw, predictably, a focus on the decision by BAE to close the shipyard in Portsmouth in favour of keeping open both yards in the Clyde.Part of the discussion...
View ArticleFirst Minister tells Sky that an independent Scotland will be England’s...
Alex Salmond must have been taking lessons in emotional intelligence from Sarah Ferguson, if an interview he has given to Sky’s Dermot Murnaghan for airing at 10.00 today, Sunday 26th January, is...
View ArticleScottish Social Attitudes survey shows substantial majority for keeping the...
The 2013 Scottish Social Attitudes Survey – they call it ‘the half-time score’ - interviewed a probability sample of 1,497 adults, face to face, between 25th June and 23rd October 2013.An immediate...
View ArticleGoing well: Western and Northern Isles’ three days of serious talks in London...
Following what are described as ‘two days of highly productive talks’ in October last year, the leaders of the three local authorities representing the Shetland, Orkney and Western Isles began three...
View ArticleMull’s Garmony Hydro eligible for UK Government feed-in-tariff
In a visit to Mull yesterday, 27 June, Energy Secretary Ed Davey announced that the island’s Garmony Hydro project is eligible for the UK Government’s feed-in tariff scheme.Garmony Hydro is a private...
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