Special Interests
Energy
Struan is a firm believer in renewable energy, but believes that nuclear power has a key role to play in a low carbon future for Scotland.
Careful consideration on the location of wind turbines is vital. Struan has worked alongside the John Muir Trust for a number of years, questioning the wisdom of locating wind turbines on peat bogs.
- MEP objects to GSK turbines for Montrose
- MEP writes to challenge Whitelee wind farm demolition plans
- Brussels Briefing January 2012
- Debate on the Bové Report on The Farm Input Supply Chain: Structure & Implications
- Blue Carbon is the key to climate change
- 'Betrayal of Trust: Scotland's Looming Energy Crisis'
- MEP to urge communities to confront local politicians over wind farm developments
- Brussels Briefing November 2011
- National Follies
- Hydro-Power Stations Do Not Consume Water
- Scots windfarm critics set for national rally
- Windfarms are “national follies”, says Euro MP
- Brussels Briefing October 2011
- Wind farm critique available in e-book format
- The Renewables Rape of Britain
- Video - The Renewables Rape of Britain
- Debate on Rio+20 Earth Summit
- Time for an honest debate on wind renewables
- Euro MP in Ayr to see sustainable future of DIY retail
- Euro MP joins opposition to desecration of Dava Moor
- Scots MEP’s surprise over “deliberately misleading” interpretation of renewables remarks
- Tory MEP joins campaign against industrial wind turbines
- The Renewable Rape of Scotland
- Euro MPs see eco-friendly opportunities for Scotch whisky
- Struan Stevenson - Tajikistan Visit - Address to Majilis, 30 May 2011
- Debate on EIB Annual Report: Speech by Struan Stevenson MEP
- "Stop Euro funds for wind farms" says Scots MEP
- The Great Windfarm Revolt
- New report makes case for Beauly-Denny undergrounding
- Fuel-ish EU oil drill moratorium defeated
- Hydrogen technology 'the next Industrial Revolution'
- February's Brussels Briefing
- Scotland’s landscape is priceless: we must protect it or lose it
- Energy Efficiency Action Plan for Scotland Consultation
- The Royal Society of Edinburgh Inquiry into Facing up to Climate Change
- Scots Tory MEP welcomes CEA's consideration of building nuclear power stations
- Scotland's peat bogs could be goldmines
- Give everyone a carbon card
- Countdown to Copenhagen
- Countdown to Copenhagen
- The SNP's plans for wind and wave power are unrealistic and unfeasible
- Scots Tory MEP calls for SNP re-think on anti-nuclear stance
- A mix of renewables and nuclear energy is needed to meet Scotland's future energy demands
- Energy saving bulbs to light homes in the EU
- There are other alternatives to overhead powerlines
- Struan Stevenson calls for better wind farm planning
- Scotland will be instrumental in achieving the European Parliament's Climate Change targets
- Pylon protestors take their case to Brussels
- Securing the Result of Economic Transition
- Environmental Breakthrough or Green Light for Greed?
- Call for sanctions on poorly sited wind farms
- Community guidelines on environmental criteria for wind farm construction
- Brussels Briefing, October 2008
- Scottish Government to think twice before destroying our peat bogs
- Brussels Briefing, July 2008
- Food or fuel? Are biofuels the answer?
- Developers must fund windfarm objectors
- The implications of land practices for peat bogs
- Brown's wind turbine policy will do far more harm than good to Scotland's peatlands
- The medicine is worse than the cure on climate change
- Stevenson welcomes refusal of Lewis wind farm
- EU may stop windfarms being built on peat bogs
- Race to cash in on lucrative subsidies for biofuels is potentially threatening the lives of millions
- Scots MEP seeks European intervention on Skye windfarm
