SCOTTISH WIND FARM OPPOSITION WELCOMES WESTMINSTER COMMITTEE REPORT
Graham Lang, chair of Scottish national alliance Scotland Against Spin which campaigns for reform of Scottish wind energy policy, said: “The headlines and press release generated by this report are the...
View ArticleSAS Comment on Biggar Economics Report
Linda Holt, spokesperson for Scotland Against Spin, said: “I had to check it wasn’t April 1st when I saw Biggar Economics claiming to have “found that for the majority of cases the tourism sector in...
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Ministers still waving through windfarms
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party press office Sunday, November 6, 2016 FAO: all newsdesks Embargo: for immediate release Two-thirds of windfarm applications rejected by local authorities have...
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Developer poised to make millions from Bandirran Wind Farm, but there are...
Banks Renewables, the proponents of a wind farm with massive turbines (132 metre tip height) that will threaten the historic landscape of the Sidlaw hills (which includes Macbeth’s Castle) have...
View ArticleCAMPAIGNERS CALL FOR URGENT ACTION AS GOVERNMENT ADMITS CARELESS WIND FARM...
A report for Scottish Natural Heritage on 20 wind farm and hydro-electric sites identifies extensive bad practice, environmental degradation and poor monitoring and enforcement by local authorities –...
View ArticleSAVE LOCH NESS HOLYROOD PETITION
Graham Lang, chair of Scotland Against Spin (SAS), the national alliance which campaigns for reform of Scottish wind policy, commented on the press statement by the Friends of the Great Glen:...
View ArticleTURKEYS DON’T VOTE FOR CHRISTMAS
Commenting on the latest poll from Scottish Renewables, Linda Holt, spokesperson for Scotland Against Spin said: “It’s no surprise that surveys commissioned and paid for by the wind industry or its...
View ArticleAND SO SAY ALL OF US! UK PARTY LEADERS CALLED TO ACCOUNT ON WIND
Press Release 20 March 2015 For immediate release Party leaders challenged on mountain and wild land protection As General Election approaches, public need to be able to decide...
View ArticleSAS response to RenewableUK report on wind economics
Linda Holt, spokesperson for national campaign group Scotland Against Spin called the report “propaganda – paid for and produced by a parasitic industry which has grown fat on consumer subsidy.” She...
View ArticleAT LONG LAST – Comment on closing ROCs early
Responding to today’s DECC announcement on onshore wind subsidies, Graham Lang, chair of Scotland Against Spin, a national alliance of groups and individuals which campaigns for reform of Scottish wind...
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