Oil cash saw fortunes of Shetland rise -but flow has ebbed away
Shetland Islands Council became the country's richest local authority after cash poured into the council coffers ever since the oil boom in the 1970s.
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New policy aims to fill future oil and gas jobs
Science and technology will be promoted in Aberdeen schools to help prepare more young people for careers in the oil and gas industry.
Windfarm ‘will flag up energy role’
A windfarm planned for Aberdeenshire will promote the region to the rest of Europe as a top green energy centre, it was claimed yesterday.
Councillors to consider turbines bid
Councillors will be asked tomorrow to back proposals to expand a windfarm in Wester Ross.
Councils have no plans to curb wind turbines
North and north-east council chiefs have no plans to follow the lead of an English local authority which could vote this week to halt the march of the wind turbines.
‘Robust’ turbines plans
Aberdeenshire Council's new leader has vowed to push for "robust" guidelines to deal with the influx of wind turbines being built in the north-east.
School playground wind turbines powered down
Highland Council ordered a shutdown of all wind turbines in its school playgrounds yesterday amid fears over children's safety.
‘Council plundering our windfarm cash’
HIGHLAND Council has been accused of trying to plunder cash from people who will have to live in the shadows of huge windfarm developments.
Policy on windfarm benefits under fire
A Scottish renewable energy trade group has warned Highland Council it risks losing valuable community benefits due to its new windfarm policy.
Council ‘takes nothing’ from windfarm benefit
The leader of Highland Council has rejected claims the local authority takes a chunk of community benefit from windfarm development.
Food waste recycling firm set for move into Highlands
A north-east recycling firm is preparing to move into the Highlands due to the introduction of new food waste rules for Scottish businesses.
Windfarm ‘no barrier to tourism’
An offshore windfarm should be regarded as a way for the north-east to diversify - not as a barrier to tourism and leisure, councillors said yesterday.
Council challenged on windfarm guidelines
PROPOSED new planning guidelines will make it nigh on impossible to refuse a windfarm in the Highlands on the grounds of its impact on nearby houses, it was claimed yesterday.
Energy project report really hard work, says councillor
Councillors want more clarity on planning guidelines drawn up as part of a massive north-east energy project.
Windfarm protesters to picket council HQ
CAMPAIGNERS against a windfarm on the edge of the Cairngorms National Park will take their protests to the doorstep of Highland Council next week.