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THE UK's largest community wind farm project is set to generate more than £20 million over the next two decades for local people, the scheme's backers have claimed.

URGENT action must be taken to ensure communities affected by large wind-farm developments can reap long-term benefits.

Westminster secretly lobbied the Indian government to give the go-ahead to a controversial multi-billion pound deal with a leading Scottish oil company, internal emails passed to the Sunday Herald reveal.

Allegations that scores of fire safety lapses could trigger a serious accident at the Hunterston B nuclear power station in North Ayrshire are under investigation by the UK Government's nuclear safety watchdog, the Sunday Herald can reveal.

WIND turbines have been turned off at 16 schools in the Highlands amid fears they may be sited dangerously close to pupils.

COUNCILS are siphoning off large proportions of wind farm community benefit funds, it has been claimed.

ONE of Scotland's top hotels has warned that more windfarms could "threaten the very essence" of the country's tourism industry.

CONTROVERSIAL fracking for shale gas should only take place at least 600 metres (1968ft) down from aquifers used for water supplies, scientists said.

AS Alex Salmond claims Scotland's green energy pledges are transforming the economy, one leading campaigner against wind power has described it as "complete mythology".

ALEX Salmond is facing fresh criticism for failing to tell MSPs about the collapse of a £170 million energy project, after it emerged he went out of his way to fix a minor error in the parliamentary record just last month.

DONALD Trump has flown into Scotland with an accusation that ministers are lying about his organisation's past support for wind power.

CLAIMS that tourism will be damaged by wind farms are based on "emotion, hysteria and conjecture", an industry group representative has told MSPs.

Fish caught in the area around a platform leaking gas into the North Sea appear to be unaffected by the incident.