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200 people, including representatives of more than 30 community councils, overwhelmingly backed a unified statement calling for a pause on all new onshore renewable energy projects in the south of Scotland.

The Scottish Government has been accused of snubbing a convention of community councils from across rural Scotland which is expected to call for a halt to all onshore renewable energy projects when it meets this Saturday (January 17).

A public inquiry has opened into yet another large-scale renewable development proposed for the Scottish Borders – this time a proposed energy park near Duns.

Local communities such as Heriot are hosts to multiple wind farms and, yet have been overwhelmed by a constant stream of additional applications since 2010, according to a recent letter in The Scotsman by John Williams (Chairman of Heriot Community Council).

Communities across the Borders and Highlands are increasingly pushing back against what they see as an imposed, wind-only energy policy driven by Scottish and UK governments, as reported recently in The Scotsman.

Scottish Ministers are being urged to intervene and order a public local inquiry into a controversial Borders wind farm amid claims that failure to do so would be a “slap in the face for local democracy”

A new plan for a major wind farm and battery system in highly sensitive Scottish Borders countryside has deepened community fears about the unprecedented industrialisation of their landscape.

Community councils across the Scottish Borders are being urged to come together in January to fight back against a relentless surge of large-scale renewable energy developments due to be approved by the Scottish Government.

The debate around wind farms in Scotland has taken an interesting turn with the Alba Party leader and former Scottish Government Minister Kenny MacAskill suggesting that there should be an immediate moratorium on all new developments.

A coalition of Scottish Borders community councils has formally objected to a proposed wind farm near Hawick, citing “significant errors and omissions” in the developer’s application, as well as an “ongoing lack of collaboration and respect” for the local communities affected.

Former Scottish Government minister and fair energy prices campaigner Kenny MacAskill has called for further onshore wind projects to be halted.

Campaigners in the Borders have called on the Scottish Government to cease issuing planning permits for more wind farms in Scotland – a country which already has built or consented around eight times more wind capacity than it can use.

Residents in rural Scotland feel like they’re living in Communist China as vast amounts of clean energy projects are being bulldozed through their communities with little to no say from locals.

Energy giant Scottish Power Energy Networks (SPEN) has been accused of a “systematic policy of obstruction” after the Information Commissioner (ICO) ruled it had breached three environmental transparency regulations and tried to “obfuscate” concerns about a major power connection.

South of Scotland MSP Craig Hoy has written to First Minister John Swinney to call for a temporary halt on new wind farm developments in the Scottish Borders, which appeared in The Border Telegraph last week.

Scotland badly needs an energy policy because politicians have no idea how much wind energy is enough, and how much is too much, leaving communities feeling “swamped and overwhelmed,” says the former Rural Economy secretary Fergus Ewing MSP. 

Scottish Ministers pay lip service to “consulting” local communities affected by renewables applications which “oppress” local people, says a leading campaigner against the spread of windfarms in the Borders.

Scottish Borders Council today opposed an Electricity Act application for a new wind farm development at Ditcher Law near Oxton, raising hopes of a public local inquiry.

Borders Wind Farm Watch has written to the planning and building standards committee ahead of their meeting on Monday 8 September about the cumulative effect of further wind farm development on the Lammermuir HIlls.

Campaigners and local residents are calling on councillors to object to the proposed Ditcher Law Wind Farm, warning of severe and damaging visual impacts that they say are being downplayed in the latest report from the Scottish Borders Council’s own Landscape Architect.