SHETLAND’S MP and MSP have signed a pledge to protect oil and gas jobs after posters put up in local shops accused the two of not backing the sector. Alistair Carmichael and Beatrice Wishart met representatives from the Unite union and two workplace reps from Sullom Voe on Friday. Read more Shetland News …
THE PRINCIPAL contractor on the Viking Energy wind farm will be sentenced in Lerwick next week in relation to the death of a 23-year-old working on the project in 2022. Liam Macdonald, from Tain, died at the Viking construction site on 5 June 2022 while working for BAM Nuttall. Read more Shetland News …
THE SUBSEA electricity cable to Papa Stour will be replaced after it developed a fault earlier this year. The hope from SSEN is to carry out the work by the end of September. Read more Shetland News …
POWER supply to the Sullom Voe Terminal is set to be provided by two 43-kilometre underground power lines from the Gremista substation by the end of next year. Read more Shetland News …
PLANS for new overhead power lines spanning a distance of 11.5km through Shetland’s Central Mainland have been given the go-ahead from the Scottish Government. Read more Shetland News …
WITH the Viking Energy turbines going up at some considerable speed, islanders on both sides of the argument over the controversial project will have to get used to the new reality. Read more Shetland News …
BLADES are now being installed on the Viking Energy wind farm turbines currently under construction in Shetland’s Central Mainland. Several large cranes are working on different sites across the construction area with the first blades added to the turbine towers at Laxo and near Aith. Some photos on social media show completed turbines. Read more Shetland News …
DELEGATES from across the Nordic region are set to travel to Shetland next month for a meeting of the net zero islands network. The two day event on 16/17 May is organised by the Scottish Government, and is a chance for Shetland Islands Council (SIC) to showcase its Orion clean energy project. Read more Shetland News …
ISLES MP Alistair Carmichael has called for some much-needed clarity on a number of unanswered questions around the government’s Alternative Fuel Payment (AFP) benefit. The MP said that following a call for responses from islanders many of his constituents had found they had not received the one-off payment of £200 while others got it unexpectedly, […] Shetland News …
SSE Renewables says it reached “another significant milestone” earlier today (Wednesday) with the erection of the first two turbine tower base sections at the Viking Energy wind farm site. The first two sections were assembled at a turbine site in North Nesting and is visible from the A970, south of the Vidlin junction. A spokesperson […] Shetland News …