A report by Carbon Tracker found serious omissions and shortcomings in SSE and Equinor's Environmental Impact Assessment of the proposed Peterhead gas power plant with carbon capture. The true...
Skye Wind Farms: Public Enquiry
Highland Council's objection to erecting nine 200-m high wind turbines at Ben Aketil has triggered a public enquiry - date yet to be announced. The enquiry is expected to report by autumn 2025 to...
Apple days at Broadford and Achmore
by Phil Knott With the generous support of the Highlands and Islands Climate Hub and the Highland Community Waste Partnership, Broadford and Strath Community Company were able to run Apple Day at...
Highland Council seeks your help to survey wax caps
Highland Council ecologist Dawn Anderson explains that Scotland is globally important for waxcaps – a group of fungi most commonly found on species-rich grasslands, old lawns and graveyards....
Financing our own extinction
by Anne MacLennan Recent reports highlight the huge problem of perverse incentives with big corporations subsidised to persist in, and expand, destructive climate, environmental and social...
Why the online cloud is not benign
by Janet Ullman Highland Community Waste Partnership on Skye For many of us in the south Skye and Lochalsh area, we were incredibly depressed by a letter from the Bank of Scotland, where we were...