The Sunday Telegraph today

Chairman of Country Guardian, and artist on our website, Angela Kelly at the 2009 Nant y Moch protest, holding a poster designed by another of our artists, George West.
Angela is mentioned in this article by Robert Mendick and Edward Melnick in today's Sunday Telegraph.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/8713199/Duke-of-Northumberland-an-unlikely-hero-in-the-fight-against-wind-farms.html

We hear this is a two page article, so don't forget to buy the Sunday Telegraph, after you have looked at this online. There is also another excellent article by Christopher Booker: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/8713093/The-BBC-steadfastly-avoids-the-facts-about-the-wind-farm-scam.html.

Matthew Sinclair

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2011/08/how-do-the-conservatives-lose-out-politically-by-embracing-radical-climate-change-policy.html

None of the mainstream political leaders seem to understand that being Green isn't about wasting taxpayers money: it should be about caring for the environment, not making money out of it at the expense of poorer people.

Devon's landscape and tranquility under even greater threat

Now that the Fullabrook turbines in North Devon are up, and visible from as far afield as Yes Tor on Dartmoor, news here of a flood of applications for smaller turbines, as well as some larger ones too.

As noted earlier in June, a couple living near the newly operational turbines at Great Torrington say they will have to move because of noise disturbance, and more recently there is already concern about the level of noise that the Fullabrook turbines are making during their testing period.

Devon's greatest asset was its landscape and its areas of peace of tranquility: they are both being destroyed at alarming pace.

http://www.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk/planners-inundated-wind-solar-farm-applications/story-13069647-detail/story.html


http://www.dartmoorpreservation.com/news-a-publications/archive-news/planning-archive/122-renewed-turbine-threat.html

The Green Mirage

http://astore.amazon.co.uk/civitas-21/detail/1906837309

"The Green Mirage: Why a Low-carbon Economy May be Further Off Than We Think"

By John Constable


Here is a quote from their Press Release:

"Constable concludes that, far from re-energising Britain's economy, the 'green economy' will drain investment from other sectors, making Britons pay more for electricity indefinitely and live less productive lives with access to fewer jobs"


See also:

http://www.ref.org.uk/

They're picking on the wrong charities

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/greenpolitics/planning/8686085/Ministers-go-to-war-with-green-charities-over-planning-shake-up-smears.html

Anrew Orlowski in The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/03/windfarm_health_experts_awol/

Here is a quote from the article:

"Industrial wind installations produce audible and non-audible noise, and optical flicker. But campaigners are fragmented, and face a daunting alliance of big eco-business and government. The academic establishment, which is quick to leap upon public health issues, is strangely inert."

Why is the the academic establishment so slow to pick up on this issue? Can it possibly be because academics are not in fact independent, and need funding from government sources?

Denmark again

http://www.windturbinesyndrome.com/news/2011/the-courage-and-necessity-of-we-the-people-denmark/

This article begins:

"I have long argued that Big Wind must be stopped by civil disobedience. Not lawsuits (they don’t work), not public hearings (they’re a farce), not invoking empirical scientific, clinical, or economic evidence (it’s routinely ignored and trivialized).

By civil disobedience I don’t mean violence. Violence is never acceptable. Violence is absurd (I speak as a professional historian)."

Please read it all - there are photographs from Denmark as well.