Here’s what its members really say about the ‘benefits’ of paying for membership of Scottish Renewables – the wind-driven trade body;
‘We don’t don’t reply to consultation responses and hardly ever go to SR events.
“And about the only thing we do use is their daily briefing… but most of the stuff in that is available free of charge in Scottish Energy News anyway!”
Perversely, Scottish Renewables has formed ‘strategic partnerships’ with England-based trade press (which do not publish sales/ circulation/ readership details in Scotland – and which have virtually no presence among opinion-formers in the Scottish Parliament, Scottish Government or the Scottish public affairs community) but which benefit from Scottish taxpayers-funded Scottish Renewables/ Scottish Enterprise/ Highlands Enterprise/ Wave Energy Scotland promotional activities).
The Glasgow-based Scottish Renewables Ltd company declined to comment.
See also; –
http://www.scottishenergynews.com/q-why-does-the-scottish-government-pay-for-recruitment-advs-on-scottish-energy-
news/http://www.scottishenergynews.com/scottish-energy-news-online-readership-rockets-to-record-high-of-45000-unique-visitors-per-month-2/
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