We can all watch Countryfile again! Thank you so much, Matt Baker, for speaking out.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9094406/Matt-Baker-questions-effectiveness-of-wind-farms.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/02/21/matt-baker-hits-out-at-wind-turbines_n_1290015.html
Perhaps next time - if ever - the producers decide to do a feature on wind farms, you can persuade them to actually visit some of the poor people in places like Cumbria, Lincolnshire, Wales, Cornwall, and now Devon as well, who are having their lives blighted by wind turbine noise.
And if they are really daring, they could do some real investigative journalism, and find some farmers too, who have regretted signing up on the dotted line, who may also be suffering from turbine noise, who may have seen their farms ruined, who may regret what they have done to their neighbours' lives, but are unable to speak out because of confidentiality clauses.
When it suits the agenda, the media are happy to interview people while hiding their identity with blurred images and altered voices. Perhaps it is time for the BBC to properly investigate the wind industry.
Here is a link to some poignant words from a farmer in the US.
This is an excerpt from his testimony - do read it in full if you can.
"I tried, as did some of the other farmers, to get out of our contracts, but we had signed a binding contract. If you are considering placing wind turbines on your property, I strongly recommend that you please reconsider. Study the issues. Think of all the harm to your land, and, in the future, to your children’s land, versus the benefits from allowing companies to lease your land for turbines."
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Friday, February 24, 2012
Is Wind The Answer?
Experts to debate in St Andrews
Public information event organized by Cameron Community Council
St Andrews Town Hall, 7.15pm 1st March 2012
Love them or loathe them, wind turbines are coming to Fife. From industrial-scale wind farms to back-garden turbines, Fife is facing a torrent of applications.
Fife Council’s Planning Department is currently looking at hundreds of proposals (1). Storms over wind rage in the local press, and are splitting Community Councils.
Now Cameron Community Council has boldly invited leading experts to St Andrews to debate the pros and cons of wind energy.
“Wind power is a relatively new phenomenon in Fife and many local communities are struggling to understand what it means for them. People are frightened and concerned by the prospect of these turbines”, Cameron Community Council Chairman Gordon Ball said.
“As the wind applications have proliferated, so have our questions. As a Community Council, it’s part of our job to make sure our communities have accurate information about the wind farms and turbines we are being asked to live with.“
Mr Ball explained that the he had invited John Mayhew, the Director of the Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland, who addressed a packed audience at Cameron Community Council last summer. Mr Mayhew explained the background to the Government’s plan to make Scotland the “Saudi Arabia of wind’”
“His talk was impressively balanced and informative,” Mr Ball added. “There was no end to the questions from the audience and many people were disappointed to have missed him.”
Mr Ball has now invited experts to St Andrews with huge experience of the impact of wind development across Scotland. “We’re encouraging anyone curious about wind to come to the Town Hall,” said Mr Ball.
There will be a question and answer forum and the meeting is free and open to all.
Joining Mr Mayhew will be Derek Birkett, the former Grid Control Engineer of Northern Scotland and author of When will the lights go out; Scottish MEP Struan Stevenson, who chairs the European Parliament’s Climate Change, Biodiversity & Sustainable Development Intergroup; Dave Bruce, who has wide ranging knowledge on all aspects of wind farm development; and Graham Lang, a local expert on the planning process for wind turbines and co-founder of EFTAG, an internet site which maps all past and present turbine proposals in East Fife.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Two of the four people who run the Coalition have family links to the wind industry
Two of the four people who run the Coalition government have family members who have made money out of the wind industry.
Read this post below from ConservativeHome
(we all know the two are, of course, but we may not have known just how powerful they are)
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2012/02/ten-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-group-of-four-that-runs-the-coalition.html
Imagine if they had similar links to the coal or oil industries!
Read this post below from ConservativeHome
(we all know the two are, of course, but we may not have known just how powerful they are)
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2012/02/ten-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-group-of-four-that-runs-the-coalition.html
Imagine if they had similar links to the coal or oil industries!
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Sammy Wilson DUP MP
Sammy Wilson is one of the MPs who signed the letter to David Cameron . He deserves special praise as he is the only MP from the beautiful country North Ireland to do so.
Here he is speaking on You Tube.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Who are the politicians?
According to an article by Robert Mendick and Edward Malnick in The Sunday Telegraph today,
"In October, a flagship Conservative policy, which would have required local referendums on large-scale projects such as wind farms and housing estates, was quietly abandoned after intense lobbying by RenewableUK. "
Who were the politicians who made the decision to give way to the lobbyists? And did they have any links (family or otherwise) to the wind industry?
We need to know.
The article also describes how the wind energy industry "drafted in eco-activists to drum up support for wind farm projects in the face of local opposition."
(The Windbyte website has some good examples of this kind of behaviour)
As we keep saying - how can anyone call such "eco-activists" Green?
Incidentally, we have a page on our website that lists more politicians who have spoken out against wind farms - in addition to the 106 who wrote to David Cameron. There are some surprising names included, and it is a work in progress, so if you know of any more please contact us.
"In October, a flagship Conservative policy, which would have required local referendums on large-scale projects such as wind farms and housing estates, was quietly abandoned after intense lobbying by RenewableUK. "
Who were the politicians who made the decision to give way to the lobbyists? And did they have any links (family or otherwise) to the wind industry?
We need to know.
The article also describes how the wind energy industry "drafted in eco-activists to drum up support for wind farm projects in the face of local opposition."
(The Windbyte website has some good examples of this kind of behaviour)
As we keep saying - how can anyone call such "eco-activists" Green?
Incidentally, we have a page on our website that lists more politicians who have spoken out against wind farms - in addition to the 106 who wrote to David Cameron. There are some surprising names included, and it is a work in progress, so if you know of any more please contact us.
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