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Jun 24, 2019

NC500 part 5

THE other day, on a glorious September morning, I went for my morning walk along Cromarty beach and was struck by a fairly normal but, in retrospect, fascinating sight. It is the season of equinox tides, and at low water squads of folk, conspicuous in bright yellow and red waders…

Environment

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Environment

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Jun 24, 2019

NC500 part 4

JULY 2016 was the hottest month recorded globally since records began, according to data published by NASA. Parts of the Middle East had daytime temperatures over 50C, which for those of us from the cool, damp north almost beggars belief. For folk travelling around the NC500 this summer it was…

Environment

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NC500 part 4
NC500 part 4
Environment

6 min read


Jun 24, 2019

NC500 part 3

THE Cromarty Bridge pauses at a couple of lay-bys, always full of visitors’ cars. It’s a popular viewing point for spotting wildlife, especially the seals that bask on the rocks by the shore, and for vistas over the Black Isle and the Ross-shire hills. However, when the tide is completely…

WIB History

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NC500 part 3
NC500 part 3
WIB History

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Jun 24, 2019

NC500 part 2

THE North Highlands are old — geologically ancient, with some of the oldest rocks on Earth forming what is now north-west Sutherland. It’s an area that is rich in primeval fossils, with Caithness having been part of a huge lake, teeming with long-extinct armoured fish. Mountains were scoured by glaciers…

Climate Change

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NC500 part 2
NC500 part 2
Climate Change

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Jun 24, 2019

NC 500 the Energy Coast

ONE of the cleverest marketing concepts I’ve seen in recent years has been distinct in its simplicity, and has been promoted almost exclusively through social media. It’s deceptively straightforward, at its core a rebranding and repackaging of existing features of the north of Scotland. …

Travel

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NC 500 the Energy Coast
NC 500 the Energy Coast
Travel

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Jun 23, 2019

Marine energy: our Apollo programme

Wee bit of deja vue from the opening para of last months post, for obvious reason, sharing some text with last months Calumdavidson.com blog post, However this is last months newspaper column in the Energy North supplement of the North of Scotland newspaper group. About this time last year, I…

Space

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Marine energy: our Apollo programme
Marine energy: our Apollo programme
Space

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Jun 23, 2019

45 years ago

About this time last year I was on day trip to Orkney to catch up with the Northern Isles MSP Liam MacArthur, and update him on all sorts of things Energy related, with my local colleague Graeme. The weather forecast was dreadful, extreme gales, wind and rain, but despite the…

Space

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45 years ago
45 years ago
Space

11 min read


Jun 23, 2019

A roller coaster year

Right across the energy world 2015 was, by any account, a pretty tumultuous year. We saw dramatic changes in renewable subsidies; Brent crude slipping under $40; governments struggling to reach agreement in Paris at the UN Climate Change COP21 conference; the Cromarty Firth full of cold stacked rigs; the UK’s…

Climate Change

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A roller coaster year
A roller coaster year
Climate Change

6 min read


Jun 23, 2019

The best way to predict the future is to invent it

This was first published in the Energy North Supplement of the North of Scotland Newspapers in December 2015. In the fourth and last of his series of articles marking the 50th anniversary of the Highlands and Islands Development Board (now Highlands and Islands Enterprise), Calum Davidson, director of energy and…

Climate Change

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The best way to predict the future is to invent it
The best way to predict the future is to invent it
Climate Change

6 min read


Jun 23, 2019

An energy Laboratory

SCOTLAND is big on world firsts: penicillin, pneumatic tyres, television, telephone, steam engines, insulin, all developed in Scotland or by Scots. Indeed HIE’s own John Shepherd-Barron was famous for being one of the inventors of the automated cash machine. Yet cutting-edge innovation is something that folk tend not to associate…

Energy

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An energy Laboratory
An energy Laboratory
Energy

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