According to the Caithness Windfarm Information Forum, 162 industry accidents were documented worldwide in 2011.
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Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross planning committee approved the plans subject to a number of conditions.
She lives in Caithness and the difficulties for her in travelling to the court are substantial.
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Caithness Solutions comprises of Cheshire-registered engineering firm Amec and Salt Lake City-based nuclear services company EnergySolutions.
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Council leader Drew Hendry said the scheme could help boost the Caithness and North Sutherland economies.
It was closely followed by Coldingham Bay in the Borders and Berriedale in Caithness.
Dounreay lies on the Caithness coast at least 10m (32ft) above sea level.
Many of the place names in Caithness can be traced back to the time of the Vikings.
The council said it hoped the scheme would bring significant economic benefits to Caithness and North Sutherland.
The loan will finance the Caithness Shepherds Flat project, an 845-megawatt wind generation facility located in eastern Oregon.
Because turbines are heavy and expensive to move, closeness to the final site is a big advantage for Caithness.
Alice Ross, of Lybster in Caithness, is thought to be the oldest person to have been prosecuted in Scotland.
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Data for Wick, Caithness, shows last month and July 2009 were the wettest since 2002 - 88.2mm and 104.8mm.
Members of Highland Council's Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross planning applications committee are to visit the site on 10 May.
Her grandson, Prince Charles, has kept the link between the Royal Family and Caithness alive and attends the Mey Games.
Kevan Fraser, 17, managed to get inside Lybster Primary in Caithness through an insecure door on 21 October last year.
Pat Grant, joint managing director of Norfrost, a Caithness company employing 350 people making fridges, has joined Business in Scotland.
Snowfall will be mostly inland across Caithness, Sutherland, Aberdeenshire, Moray, Angus, east Perthshire and west Fife, especially later in the day.
John Thurso, Liberal Democrat MP for Caithness Sutherland and Easter Ross, said Dounreay was a world leading centre of technological innovation.
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The SPSO recommended improvements at Caithness General Hospital, and also Raigmore Hospital in Inverness which the couple had also complained about.
Liberal Democrat health spokesman Jamie Stone, the MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, said an urban-rural divide in provision remains.
In Scotland, 15 flood warnings are in place affecting Aberdeenshire, Caithness and Sutherland, Dundee and Angus, Tayside and the Borders.
Prince Charles, while attending the Royal National Mod in Thurso, said he would question suggestions Gaelic had no direct relevance to Caithness.
Northern Constabulary said snow and ice was also affecting Caithness and Sutherland.
Now the atomic plant is being decommissioned and its workforce gradually scaled down, Caithness, like Saudi Arabia, is tackling the challenge of unemployment.
Safety at the Dounreay nuclear plant continues to improve, according to the bosses of the company leading the clean-up of the Caithness complex.
Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd wants to construct up to 339 turbines across three offshore wind farms located 22km (13.5 miles) from the Caithness coast.
Rob Gibson, SNP MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, said it was "vitally important" al parties involved with Dounreay worked with the local community.
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The project is being developed by Caithness Energy, an energy development company with experience in solar, wind, natural gas and geothermal energy production.
In their responses, campaign group Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) and Shetland Islands Council said they wanted it to be stored at the Caithness site.
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