Irish Sea Eagle killed by Turbine

http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/?p=4080

It is hard to keep track of all the beautiful and lonely places in the world that are being spoiled by the wind power industry.

This was such a precious area of South West Ireland, it is a shock to learn there are turbines here too.

Russell George

Russell George is Conservative Assembly candidate for Montgomeryshire.

He says on his website:

"Ever since my involvement in local politics I have been an opponent to The Welsh Assembly Government’s large scale wind farm policy and TAN 8 proposals."

Go to his website to read more: http://russellgeorge.com/

And also if you haven't seen it before, go to the Cambrian Mountains Society website.

"The Budget's green dreams will leave us powerless"

A powerful article by Christopher Booker in today's Sunday Telegraph.

"There's nothing wrong with fighting wind farms"

Read this article by Nigel Adams (MP for Selby and Ainsty) in The Yorkshire Post

Re whales and wind farms

We linked to a Press Report in mid March concerning whales and wind turbines. The Press Report was incorrect and the scientific paper that was mentioned in it did not mention wind farms.


Here is the correction on www.telegraph.co.uk


More information here as well:

http://www.windturbinesyndrome.com/news/2011/do-marine-wind-turbines-drive-whales-to-beach-themselves-nobody-knows-for-certain-uk/

We are sorry to have linked (in good faith) to an incorrect Press Report. We do however think that there remains a strong possibility that whales could be disturbed by turbine noise. Obviously, proving this is not easy.

"Way clear for pylons to blot the landscape"

Buy The Times today if you can - a great article by Simon Barnes about threats to Constable Country.

Blackcraig Hill by Patricia McCrow

On February 12th 2004, I was invited up to to Dumfries and Galloway, and, along with the GLARE group of artists and Professor David Bellamy, we launched the Artists Against Wind Farms website.

The watercolour above was painted by a wonderful lady called Patricia McCrow. She had lived below Blackcraig for many years, and loved the hill, as so many people do. That day in February was a very cold one, but, although she was 82, she insisted on coming outside with the rest of us as we sketched Blackcraig Hill, on our first "Paint it while it's there day."

She said "The hills would never forgive me if I did not fight to save them."
Since that day, she has sadly passed away.

This month, the Scottish Government has approved a 69 MW 23 turbine wind farm on Blackcraig. The only word that can be used to describe this is vandalism.