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Expert visits Holyrood to highlight risks of ‘fracking’

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:58:23 GMT

AN internationally acclaimed toxins experts is visiting Scotland next week to highlight the risks of unconventional gas extraction techniques such as “fracking”.

Comment: Tide needs to turn for wave power industry

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:19:18 GMT

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.

Landowner’s Penicuik wind farm is blown off course

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:10:00 GMT

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.

Farmers furious after latest dog attack mauls 20 sheep

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:13:36 GMT

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.

Torness Nuclear power station back open to public

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:38:58 GMT

TORNESS Nuclear power station has opened to the public for the first time since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in America.

Researchers want secrets of mussels

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:56:51 GMT

A DIVING expedition is under way to uncover the secrets of giant horse mussels on Scotland’s seabed.

Donald Trump begins wind farm legal challenge

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:27:44 GMT

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.

Video: Lightning strikes Russian TV tower

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:12:08 GMT

Lightning struck a television tower in Russia’s second city on Monday during a thunder storm, lighting up the sky in a spectacular display.

Lairds criticised for pocketing wind farm subsidies

Wed, 15 May 2013 23:05:55 GMT

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.

Funding for electric microcar tourism project

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:34:35 GMT

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.

Tavish Scott: Tourism push creates cash conundrum

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:30:19 GMT

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.

Study to uncover secrets of Scotland’s seabed

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:47:29 GMT

A diving expedition is under way to uncover the secrets of giant horse mussels on Scotland’s seabed.

Windfarm ‘could have impact on Highland Fault’

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:17:57 GMT

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.

Black Widow found in Aberdeen industrial estate

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:31:15 GMT

A POTENTIALLY deadly Black Widow spider has been found in a shipment delivered to an industrial unit in Aberdeen.

Scots leading way in meeting future energy needs

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:24:06 GMT

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.

Ban on fish discards step closer after EU talks

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:50:08 GMT

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.

Cairngorm funicular railway walks plan talks

Wed, 15 May 2013 08:01:48 GMT

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.

Green energy could bring 10,000 to islands - study

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:26:10 GMT

RENEWABLE energy projects could create more than 10,000 jobs on the Scottish islands by 2030, according to a government-commissioned report.

Bheinn Mhor windfarm proposal raises objections

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:42:34 GMT

ANTI-WINDFARM objectors have condemned plans by a renewables firm to build a windfarm next to an iconic Highland beauty spot.

Scots beaches worst in Britain for bottle litter

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:09:08 GMT

SCOTTISH beaches are the worst in Britain for being polluted with discarded plastic drinks bottles.