Normal service is resuming at last - hopefully anyway! Computer problems, and life itself, have resulted in a long pause in blogging a pause, here (but not as long as the one in global warming.)
On Fullabrook, noise problems have continued, even as the world at large has ignored the plight of those living near the turbines.
http://www.northdevongazette.co.uk/news/fullabrook_given_december_deadline_to_formulate_plan_to_cut_non_compliant_noise_levels_1_3857953
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Friday, September 6, 2013
Parade against the Atlantic Array
Protesters near Barnstaple Square, before going to the Park Hotel for a Public Meeting.
More to come.
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
The Atlantic Array
Slay The Array will be staging a parade through the centre of Barnstaple
next Saturday, 31 August, at 11.00 am followed by a Public Meeting at 12pm, to alert the
people of North Devon to the imminent threat from the Atlantic Array.
The Parade starts at the Civic Centre, and goes through central Barnstaple to the Square. The Public Meeting will be held at the Park Hotel, in Taw Vale, not very far from the Square.
For more information go to:
www.slaythearray.com
The Parade starts at the Civic Centre, and goes through central Barnstaple to the Square. The Public Meeting will be held at the Park Hotel, in Taw Vale, not very far from the Square.
For more information go to:
www.slaythearray.com
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Bird deaths under-estimated
"A new study just published in the United States has estimated that
around 573,000 birds were killed by wind turbines in 2012 (including
83,000 birds of prey), in increase of 30 per cent on a previous estimate
by the US fish and Wildlife Service in 2009. Bats are even worse hit,
says author K Shawn Smallwood, and probably top 888,000 killed per year.
Clearly this has serious implications for the renewable energy industry, which bases much of its investment and publicity on the safety and environmental sustainability of the machines. Smallwood also believes his figures are underestimated, owing to the incompleteness if reports of bird and bat deaths from different states, in particular Texas."
http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/channel/newsitem.asp?c=11&cate=__14606
This comes as no surprise. As someone commented to me the other day, up on Fullabrook Down, many buzzards, for example, are seen hovering above the turbines. It isn't that easy to stand on watch over 22 turbines, and we couldn't help wondering how many birds fall to the ground unnoticed, and are carried away by foxes overnight.
Clearly this has serious implications for the renewable energy industry, which bases much of its investment and publicity on the safety and environmental sustainability of the machines. Smallwood also believes his figures are underestimated, owing to the incompleteness if reports of bird and bat deaths from different states, in particular Texas."
http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/channel/newsitem.asp?c=11&cate=__14606
This comes as no surprise. As someone commented to me the other day, up on Fullabrook Down, many buzzards, for example, are seen hovering above the turbines. It isn't that easy to stand on watch over 22 turbines, and we couldn't help wondering how many birds fall to the ground unnoticed, and are carried away by foxes overnight.
Friday, July 19, 2013
Slay the Array
Acceptance of planning
application for UK's largest wind farm spells potential disaster for North
Devon
Following
the
announcement that the Planning Inspectorate has accepted an
applicationfrom Channel Energy Ltd to build the UK's largest offshore
wind farm,
consisting of 240 700-foot turbines, off the North Devon coast, Steve
Crowther
of campaign group Slay The Array said:
"North
Devon is now in mortal danger.
"The
jobs
of one in six North Devonians depend on the visitors who come here
fornature, tranquility and unspoilt views; a 10% fall in tourist numbers
couldcost the area £30m a year.
"Our
fish, birds and sea-mammals will be under threat, our fishermen out of work,
and our shipping lanes an accident waiting to happen. Lundy will cease to exist
as we know it.
"We
face years of pile-driving, onshore construction and despoiling of the sea-bed,
to build a massive white elephant producing intermittent electricity at three
times the market cost.
"All
this, in the second-best location for tidal power generation in the world!
"Tell
everyone. We must fight this to the death."
For further information
contact Steve Crowther, www.slaythearray.com
Friday, July 5, 2013
Energy Swindle
"Politicians should be doing everything they can to limit the pressure on
household energy bills. Instead they are adding to the amount that you
are paying by promising fat subsidies to companies who invest in
expensive sources of energy like onshore and offshore wind turbines.
Offshore wind costs three times as much as conventional energy but the
Government want us to use a lot more of it, even if that means more
pressure on people’s finances and more jobs lost as industry is driven
overseas."
These words were written by Matthew Sinclair, Chief Executive of the Taxpayers Alliance. The TPA have launched their Stop the Energy Swindle campaign at http://energyswindle.org/
Matthew Sinclair has also written a brilliant piece in the The Spectator titled "How the government's energy policies will benefit a rich sheik at the expense of the poor.
"How exactly have we got to a world in which Ministers are proud of signing a deal where poor families pay three times as much for their energy and the money is handed over in fat profits to an Emirati sheikhdom?" he asks.
These words were written by Matthew Sinclair, Chief Executive of the Taxpayers Alliance. The TPA have launched their Stop the Energy Swindle campaign at http://energyswindle.org/
Matthew Sinclair has also written a brilliant piece in the The Spectator titled "How the government's energy policies will benefit a rich sheik at the expense of the poor.
"How exactly have we got to a world in which Ministers are proud of signing a deal where poor families pay three times as much for their energy and the money is handed over in fat profits to an Emirati sheikhdom?" he asks.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
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