Windfarm comments deadline extended by 28 days
Campaigners have won their fight for more time to comment on the controversial Viking windfarm planning application. The Viking Energy Partnership has agreed on Thursday…
READ FULL STORYCampaigners have won their fight for more time to comment on the controversial Viking windfarm planning application. The Viking Energy Partnership has agreed on Thursday…
READ FULL STORYShetland’s MP and MSP have backed a call by Sustainable Shetland for an extension to the time allowed for comments on Viking Energy’s windfarm application….
READ FULL STORYBy JOHN ROBERTSON Viking Energy has ruled out a referendum to gauge whether Shetland is for or against the giant windfarm. Chairman Bill Manson said…
READ FULL STORYBy JOHN ROBERTSON The team in charge of the planning process for the Viking windfarm application has confirmed that objectors have just one month to…
READ FULL STORYBy JOHN ROBERTSON Shetland could earn £37 million a year from its proposed giant windfarm, according to revised figures in Viking Energy’s planning application, lodged…
READ FULL STORYBy JOHN ROBERTSON The windfarm could take more than half its lifespan to pay back the carbon pollution it causes if more peat bog becomes…
READ FULL STORYViking Energy lodging its planning application on Wednesday was somewhat overshadowed by the opening the same day of Europe’s largest onshore wind farm in the…
READ FULL STORYBy JOHN ROBERTSON The Viking Energy Partnership has unveiled a large scale model of Shetland showing for the first time how its proposed windfarm sits…
READ FULL STORYBy JOHN ROBERTSON The exact size and layout of Shetland’s giant community windfarm will be revealed later this month as Viking Energy prepares to apply…
READ FULL STORYBy JIM TAIT While Viking Energy’s proposed windfarm in the central Mainland has divided the community and generated bitter debate, Shetland’s original commercial wind turbines…
READ FULL STORYCOMMUNITY Energy Scotland is taking a lead role in assisting the development of a wide variety of projects across Shetland. One example is the new…
READ FULL STORYBy RYAN TAYLOR CALLS by Viking Energy for a fairer system of transmission charges were given further backing by the Scottish government this week. Energy…
READ FULL STORYA SURVEY vessel has been at work in the first stages of planning for Viking Energy to establish its windfarm development. The Franklin was studying…
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