Posts Tagged ‘Scotland’

Scottish Government Reject Alternative Energy Plans.

By Jim • Apr 24th, 2008 • Category: Latest Green News

The Scottish government has rejected plans to build one of Europe’s biggest onshore wind farms due what it said was the “significant adverse impacts” on the local environment.
Ministers in Edinburgh decided that the 500-million-pound (one-billion-dollar, 625-million-euro) project would have threatened rare and endangered bird populations and damaged peatland on the remote Isle of Lewis, northwest […]