#windfarm
UK offshore wind at ‘tipping point’ as funding crisis threatens industry
Britain faces being left with no hope of meeting its crucial climate crisis goals and losing its status as a world leader in offshore wind energy without an urgent overhaul of government support, ministers are being warned.
The sudden halting of one of the country’s biggest offshore windfarm projects last month could signal a “tipping point” in the construction of new sites unless ministers intervene, a number of senior energy industry figures told the Observer.
#ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming #C02 #energy #renewable #green #GreenEnergy #WindFarm #ToryFascistDictatorship #FossilFuels #NorthSea #oil
#Trees they have no value, they are only #equivalents and #sinks, but mostly they just get in the way.
Net Zero - SNP cuts down millions of trees to build wind farms on public land
Mairi #Gougeon, the Scottish Government's Rural Affairs Secretary, admitted that they had felled millions of trees in order to build more turbines. It forms part of the #SNP administration's plans to make #Scotland net zero over the next decade.
And she claimed that many of the felled trees will have been "replanted on site" or replaced elsewhere, with the vast majority of them being part of a commercial crop that would have been chopped down anyway "at the end of their rotation”.
#netzero #environment #politics #nature #nodealfornature #wind #windfarm #Windpark #energy #new_normal
THE #windfarm proposed for the land above #GouganeBarra has been #shelved,
it appears. The people of the area have made their voices – and opposition – known by saying definitively that they don’t want large metal structures dominating one of Ireland’s most stunning locations.
It is not often that a local David manages to overpower the Goliath of the planning system in this country, but when it happens, it can only mean a victory for democracy.
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One got the impression that the well-briefed community groups in this most spectacular of valleys were determined that even if they had lost this hurdle, they would have dusted themselves off and faced the next one with just as much determination, to ensure this very special place, and hugely historical area, was kept as close to nature as possible.
https://www.southernstar.ie/news/victory-for-gougane-barra-4251153
● NEWS ● #CommonDreams #Energy ☞ Opinion | Historic Offshore #WindFarm Is a Very Good Thing https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/01/13/historic-offshore-wind-farm-very-good-thing
