Spittal Hill Wind Farm - an opportunity to make your views known

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This web site is designed to help inform and shape the proposed wind farm development at Spittal Hill. The site provides information and links giving you access to a wide range of materials on both the proposed wind farm itself and the reasons for developing wind power as a whole. Critically, this site will endeavour to encourage all visitors to read and digest the information available and to respond, through the site or other means, highlighting your views on the Spittal Hill Wind Farm, renewable energy and the wider climate change debate.

 

Brown wants UK to lead climate fight

Prime Minister Gordon Brown wants Britain to lead the fight against global warming and has hinted that climate change policies must become more ambitious.  He makes his first major speech on the issue later and will underscore the need to act immediately to combat global warming.

19 November 2007

Grim climate change report spurs UN call for breakthrough

The Nobel-winning IPCC group of climate scientists on Saturday issued their starkest warning yet on global warming, prompting a UN demand for politicians to smash the deadlock on tackling the worsening threat. In a panorama of the evidence, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) declared that the impact of global warming could be "abrupt or irreversible" and no country would be spared.
17 November 2007

Salmond plans Norwegian energy link-up
ALEX Salmond, the First Minister, is to meet Jens Stoltenberg, the Norwegian prime minister, over plans to create a subsea "supergrid" to take green energy from Scotland to Europe.
30 October 2007

Excellent progress for Europe's largest windfarm

A year into construction, Whitelee - Europe’s largest windfarm at Eaglesham, south of Glasgow is well on schedule with the first turbine due to arrive in November. The 140 turbine project will have an installed capacity of 322MW. Plans include recreational facilities and a state-of-the-art visitor centre, expected to welcome tens of thousands of visitors a year.

07 September 2007

S&SE Chief Exec unveils £1bn profit
Ian Marchant remains confident in maintaining S&SE's independence after announcing record profits. S&SE is keeping its options open in connection with nuclear power stations, but stresses that Scotland has time to assess how much power can be generated from green energy.
01 June 2007


 


Photo montage 1: Location: A9 near Spittal. Distance to nearest turbine - 1.7km


Photo montage 2: Location: Junction A9 A882. Distance to nearest turbine - 4km

BACKGROUND

Spittal Windfarm Ltd is a locally based company set up by Tom and Steven Pottinger who own the farm on Banniskirk Mains. In the early 1990s Tom and Steven were approached by developers exploring the opportunity of developing a wind farm on their land. Wind data indicated the site would be an excellent location and, more recently, Tom and Steven decided to form a company in order to hopefully develop and run the site while retaining as much local ownership as possible.

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