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Ardersier Port joins the Inverness and Cromarty Firth Green Freeport consortium

Ardersier Port joins the Inverness and Cromarty Firth Green Freeport consortium

Ardersier Port joins the Inverness and Cromarty Firth Green Freeport consortium

28 June 2023

Haventus, the owner of Ardersier Port, has joined the growing list of Green Freeport consortium members.


EXPLAINED: Is SSEN between a rock and a hard place in delivering mega power line reinforcements across the Highlands?

EXPLAINED: Is SSEN between a rock and a hard place in delivering mega power line reinforcements across the Highlands?

EXPLAINED: Is SSEN between a rock and a hard place in delivering mega power line reinforcements across the Highlands?

18 June 2023

Ambitious targets agreed by government have created a significant challenge for SSEN in the Highlands. Can it deliver amid hot controversy?


Highland businessman Roy Macgregor's Global Energy Group empire expands further

Highland businessman Roy Macgregor's Global Energy Group empire expands further

Highland businessman Roy Macgregor's Global Energy Group empire expands further

15 June 2023

MacGregor's Global Energy Group empire has expanded after GEG Capital acquired IKM Consulting.


Extra winter support for residents agreed by Highland Council

Extra winter support for residents agreed by Highland Council

Extra winter support for residents agreed by Highland Council

12 June 2023

The £106 payment is designed to help people in the wider Inverness area cope with the cost-of-living crisis and winter energy bills.


£200m to be invested in major new Highland cable factory and 150 jobs created

£200m to be invested in major new Highland cable factory and 150 jobs created

£200m to be invested in major new Highland cable factory and 150 jobs created

18 May 2023

Nigg has yet to be confirmed as the site for Sumitomo Electric Industries' new cable factory but an announcement on that is thought to be imminent.


TV presenter Cameron McNeish urges energy firm to look elsewhere with Ardverikie hydro dam plans

TV presenter Cameron McNeish urges energy firm to look elsewhere with Ardverikie hydro dam plans

TV presenter Cameron McNeish urges energy firm to look elsewhere with Ardverikie hydro dam plans

04 May 2023

John Muir Trust has also expressed concerns over big money renewable scheme


Highland MP calls for public inquiry into controversial Beauly to Caithness powerline plans

Highland MP calls for public inquiry into controversial Beauly to Caithness powerline plans

Highland MP calls for public inquiry into controversial Beauly to Caithness powerline plans

04 May 2023

A Highland MP is calling for a public inquiry into the controversial plans for an overhead power line between Beauly and Caithness.


Major cable factory in Easter Ross will be ‘a boon for future generations’, says Highland MP

Major cable factory in Easter Ross will be ‘a boon for future generations’, says Highland MP

Major cable factory in Easter Ross will be ‘a boon for future generations’, says Highland MP

03 May 2023

A MASSIVE new subsea cable factory in Easter Ross will help future generations stay in the Highlands to live and work, a delighted local MP believes.


SSE seeks planning permission for a new wind farm in Fort Augustus

SSE seeks planning permission for a new wind farm in Fort Augustus

SSE seeks planning permission for a new wind farm in Fort Augustus

03 May 2023

Cloiche wind farm would comprise 29 turbines with heights of up to 149.9 metres.


Failure to generate green energy manufacturing jobs 'has become a national embarrassment'

Failure to generate green energy manufacturing jobs 'has become a national embarrassment'

Failure to generate green energy manufacturing jobs 'has become a national embarrassment'

30 April 2023

Scotland needs to do more to ensure the much-trumpeted transition to green energy generates manufacturing jobs and supply chains, a union claims.


Japanese manufacturing giant plans massive subsea cable factory at Nigg

Japanese manufacturing giant plans massive subsea cable factory at Nigg

Japanese manufacturing giant plans massive subsea cable factory at Nigg

28 April 2023

Sumitomo Electric Industries 44m high plant would cover 48,000 m2 and be the largest on the Cromarty Firth.


Inverness leisure swimming pool operating hours to be cut – but more lessons available

Inverness leisure swimming pool operating hours to be cut – but more lessons available

Inverness leisure swimming pool operating hours to be cut – but more lessons available

28 April 2023

High Life Highland says it will allow parent and child swimming lessons at the quietest times


Japanese manufacturing giant plans a major Highland factory producing subsea power cables

Japanese manufacturing giant plans a major Highland factory producing subsea power cables

Japanese manufacturing giant plans a major Highland factory producing subsea power cables

27 April 2023

But mystery surrounds where exactly Sumitomo Electric Industries' plant will be located in the region


FERGUS EWING: Inconvenient truths in the battle for energy future

FERGUS EWING: Inconvenient truths in the battle for energy future

FERGUS EWING: Inconvenient truths in the battle for energy future

25 April 2023

A very long time ago I debated with the distinguished Labour MP Tam Dalyell.


£300 million Texas-Highland connection set to revive Ardersier 'for 100 years'

£300 million Texas-Highland connection set to revive Ardersier 'for 100 years'

£300 million Texas-Highland connection set to revive Ardersier 'for 100 years'

24 April 2023

The investment aims aims to accelerate the redevelopment creating 'thousands of jobs'


£300 million investment in the Port of Ardersier to accelerate redevelopment plans

£300 million investment in the Port of Ardersier to accelerate redevelopment plans

£300 million investment in the Port of Ardersier to accelerate redevelopment plans

24 April 2023

US private equity firm Quantum Energy Partners will put up the cash to create oil rig decommissioning and off shore wind farm facility


WATCH: Fergus Ewing slams Green party 'wine bar revolutionaries' over new North Sea gas fields

WATCH: Fergus Ewing slams Green party 'wine bar revolutionaries' over new North Sea gas fields

WATCH: Fergus Ewing slams Green party 'wine bar revolutionaries' over new North Sea gas fields

20 April 2023

The Inverness and Nairn MSP was furious at what he calls their 'economic masochism' which would make climate 'actually worse not better'


Highland climate activists to join massive London march against UK policies

Highland climate activists to join massive London march against UK policies

Highland climate activists to join massive London march against UK policies

19 April 2023

CLIMATE activists from the Highlands are to head to London for a major protest highlighting the dangers of a warming world and government inaction.


Your views wanted over route of controversial new power line

Your views wanted over route of controversial new power line

Your views wanted over route of controversial new power line

13 April 2023

SSEN Transmission has announced a series of public consultation events as it seeks to finalise the route of the new Beauly to Peterhead power line.


Major power line and substation plans spark packed Highland protest meeting

Major power line and substation plans spark packed Highland protest meeting

Major power line and substation plans spark packed Highland protest meeting

08 April 2023

ANGRY residents have accused energy bosses of trying to "industrialise the Highlands" after they gathered to protest plans for major new power lines.


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