Britain’s energy policy went from weird to bizarre
THE answer to Britain’s power supply is beneath our feet, writes Stuart Young. There has been much discussion recently about the unintended consequences of certain decisions, actions, or lack of...
View ArticleUseless wind
I do not often agree with Niall Stuart of Scottish Renewables (Friends of The Scotsman, 11 March) but for once “changing land” unarguably describes what his trade association’s members are doing to our...
View ArticleSA Scotland welcomes Ineos plans for a major new Scottish shale gas community...
Scientific Alliance Scotland has welcomed Ineos’ plans for its shale gas community engagement programme. The announcement is expected to include more details on an existing promise to pay millions of...
View ArticleScotland faces energy crisis by 2020
Dash for Scottish renewables is creating an “economic cuckoo” which threatens security of Scotland’s energy supplies.read more
View ArticleRenewables gravy train can’t clatter on
IT IS only to be expected that representatives of the wind industry such as Andy Drane (Friends of The Scotsman, 8 June) should be concerned by the likely derailment of the onshore wind subsidy “gravy...
View ArticleScottish Government energy policy is flawed
by JACK PONTON AND JOHN WILLIAMSDASH for wind has left us facing a power supply crisis as generation is not balanced by demand, say Jack Ponton and John Williams. There is a developing crisis in...
View ArticleScientists hit out at "silly" zero emissions ferry project
SCIENTISTS have blasted attempts by a Scottish Government quango to create zero emissions ferry powered by hydrogen as a "silly idea".read more
View ArticleWind power
Once again you have published comments from members of various wind energy interest and lobby groups heralding another “record” of wind generation (your report, 6 July). However, the claim that in June...
View ArticleWorld Health Organisation (WHO) classes glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic”
Joanna Clarke (Letters, 18 August) states that the World Health Organisation (WHO) classes glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic”. Only the cancer agency of the Who made this claim.read more
View ArticleGM balance
Professor Carlo Leifert (Letters, 20 August) claims there is no commercial benefit to farmers for using GM crops. read more
View ArticleWrong battle
So our politicians are going to get together to “battle global warming” (your report, 31 August)? Since Scotland is responsible for less than 0.5 per cent of world CO2 emissions I cannot see the rest...
View ArticleGM evidence
Dave Morris (Letters, 7 September) objects to Professor Trewavas’s use of scientific evidence to support GM crops. What would he prefer? Emotion? Rhetoric?read more
View ArticleSNP government ‘antagonistic’ to scientific advice
by Scott MacNab THE SNP government’s “antagonism” to scientific advice is deterring the country’s top experts from working with ministers, leading scientists have warned.read more
View ArticleHerald Agenda: Government's closed mind on GM crops will exact a heavy price
By Tony Trewavas and Keith Dawson read more
View ArticleA Tale of Two Climates and One Price
Note: Article first appearing in Scottish Farmer By Dr Keith Dawsonread more
View ArticleLongannet
While agreeing with Elizabeth Marshall (Letters, 25 August) over the incomprehensible price of the Hinckley contract I am unable to understand her claim of a consequent charge of £200 per person. Her...
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