Month: March 2025

March 31, 2025 Graham Garfoot 1 comment

This post comments further on the heavily redacted replies to Mr Gordon Bulloch’s FOI request of 05/12/2024 about the 2023 closure of the funicular. Email 1, sent  on 23rd August at 23.17, was considered in the first post in this series. The emails are between the various parties involved:- Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE); Cairngorm…

March 27, 2025 Nick Kempe 4 comments

In November David Craig explained how advances in smart phone technology meant that any masts erected under the UK Government’s Shared Rural Network programme  to eliminate Total Not Spots would soon become obsolete (see here).  On 25th March Ofcom issued a set of proposals for consultation which would remove the regulatory block to that happening…

March 24, 2025 Nick Kempe 9 comments

On 19th March the Herald revealed (see here) that Scottish Forestry, having suspended grant payments to BrewDog after it was revealed many of the trees in the Lost Forest had died, has now paid them £1.2m and agreed to pay a further £1.5m for the project.  This post takes another look at the scandal in the…

March 8, 2025 Nick Kempe 6 comments

The Scottish Wildlife Trust (SWT)’s announcement earlier this week that they had purchased the Inverbroom Estate (see here) should be another nail in the coffin for so-called green finance. Tucked away in their news release is a very significant statement: “Following the purchase, the Trust has announced several ambitions for the site, from the regeneration…

March 7, 2025 Graham Garfoot 1 comment

On 5 December 2024 Gordon Bulloch submitted a two part information request to Highlands and Islands Enterprise.  60 working days later and only after a Review request he received a few highly redacted emails to the first part of his request which was for: All reports and associated correspondence concerning the decision to stop operation…

March 5, 2025 Nick Kempe 4 comments

Following my post yesterday on King Charles’ muirburn at Delnadamph (see here), I am very grateful to Jamie Mann, an investigative journalist at the Ferret, for alerting me to NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) database (see here).  FIRMS records satellite observations of fires, however caused,  across the world.  Satellite technology now has…