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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.

The madness of the Scottish and UK government obsession with wind power has once again been laid bare by the looming rise in household power bills despite wholesale energy bills falling.

A former Secretary of Sate for Scotland has called for a moratorium on new large-scale windfarm and pylon developments in the Borders.

Calls for a halt to large-scale pylon and wind turbine projects in the Highlands have been welcomed by campaigners – and now pressure is growing for the Scottish Borders to follow suit.

In the first half of this year Scottish wind farms were paid not to produce nearly 40% of the electricity they could have generated.

Concerns are mounting once again over the relentless spread of wind farms across the Scottish Borders, as yet another large-scale development raises alarm among conservationists and local communities alike.

Fifty Scottish local councils have demanded an urgent summit with ministers to rein in what they are calling a “green energy wild west,” as reported in The Herald.

The ‘eye-watering’ multi-million-pound goldrush enjoyed by wind farm hosts and developers has been exposed in a landmark court case.