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Wind farms 'have major economic benefit'
Monday 07 May 2012
Onshore wind farms, recently under attack from leading conservationists for damaging the countryside, can bring significant economic benefits locally and nationally, as well as contributing to the fight against climate change, a new study claims.
Wind farms will kill tourism, says Donald Trump
Wednesday 25 April 2012
US tycoon Donald Trump has told the Scottish Parliament that wind farms will destroy tourism.
Donald Trump launches wind farms broadside
Tuesday 17 April 2012
US tycoon Donald Trump has warned that wind farms could "completely end" tourism in Scotland and the country is "in effect committing financial suicide".
Turbine scheme provokes wuthering gale of protest
Friday 06 April 2012
Residents of Haworth, home of the Brontës, are furious at plans to build a wind farm nearby
Donald Trump promises £10m to fight wind farm construction in Britain
Monday 27 February 2012
Fresh from a dispute with environmentalists over his golf resort on the Aberdeenshire coast, the billionaire Donald Trump has revealed plans to hand £10m to anti-wind farm campaigners.
Photography: Fabrik, By Jakob Tuggener
Sunday 26 February 2012
First published in Zurich in 1943, when neutral Switzerland's manufacturing was happily profiting from the Second World War, Jakob Tuggener's Fabrik, a sceptical pictorial critique of Swiss industry, was entirely out of step with the times.
Cutting up rough: Trump and Salmond's love-in blown off course by wind farm plan
Saturday 11 February 2012
Donald Trump has more reason than most to fear the Scottish wind.
Alex Salmond accused over wind farm plan
Thursday 09 February 2012
US tycoon Donald Trump has written to First Minister Alex Salmond, accusing him of seeming “hell-bent on destroying Scotland's coastline” with wind turbines.
Mountain-top wind farm halted
Wednesday 18 January 2012
Plans for a giant wind farm on the edge of the Cairngorms National Park have been rejected by councillors – who travelled 3,600ft up the mountains to see its potential impact for themselves, as reported by The Independent.
The Diary: Tate Modern; Clint Eastwood; Michel Hazanavicius; Rhys Darby; Kevin Spacey
Friday 13 January 2012
Close encounters
Tidal energy turbine set up in the sea
Monday 26 December 2011
A 100ft underwater turbine destined to form part of a major tidal energy project has been installed in the sea around Orkney.
Letters: Our world is on the brink of disaster
Thursday 15 December 2011
The discovery of vast fountains of methane spewing into the atmosphere (report, 13 December), terrifying though this revelation is, merely represents the latest in a series of climate-change phenomena whose speed of development has been dangerously understated by mainstream climate policy analysts.
Wind farms a disgrace, says Philip
Monday 21 November 2011
The Duke of Edinburgh condemned on-shore wind farms as "a disgrace" and accused those who support them of believing in a "fairytale".
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