Christopher Booker in The Daily Mail

Why the £250bn wind power industry could be the greatest scam of our age - and here are the three 'lies' that prove it

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361316/250bn-wind-power-industry-greatest-scam-age.html#ixzz1FHjjEzEh

Great news from Wales

Mynydd y Gwair by David Bellamy

After 7 years of fighting to save this upland area, the SOCME group have sent out a Press Release to express their delight that the Welsh Assembly has not granted planning permission for the Mynydd y Gwair Wind Farm.

How sad it is that Mal Davies and Jan Mosely, who fought so hard to save the mountain, are not alive to join the celebrations. Please take a look if you can at the website that Mal Davies set up: www.socme.org, and be grateful to all who fought to preserve this beautiful mountain for future generations to enjoy.
here are some more links : protest walk
Paint it day from the reservoir
Glyn Morgan, Chairman of SOCME, with Jenny Keal (artist) at Cefn Coch, 2007

Rory Stewart MP

http://carst.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/reagill-visit-confirms-rory-stewarts-stand-for-a-turbine-free-constituency/

Go to the CARST website and read what Rory Stewart had to say about turbines in Cumbria.
How good it is to hear him speak up for some of those who campaign against the industrialisation of our most beautiful wildernesses.

News and links

Wolfe Island turbines still harming birds...

http://naturecanadablog.blogspot.com/2011/02/wolfe-island-wind-plant-still-harming.html

just sent link to this excellent website;
http://www.druimba-sayno.com/

The Druim Ba Windfarm proposal is for 23 turbines, almost 500 feet high, at Druim Ba on the Blairmore Estate, within one mile of 35 homes. Go to their site to learn more.

Also found on their site, a link to a report in Scotland on Sunday, about plans to put 1000 new turbines in Scotland's forests:
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/news/Anger-over-Scots-forest-windfarms.6721201.jp

Up on Fullabrook Down last Sunday

I went up on to the Fullabrook Down Wind farm site on Sunday. it wasn't a great day for taking photographs, cloudy with poor visibility much of the time, but I took some video clips as well, which will be uploaded later.
This photograph was taken between the positions of turbine s 6 and 10 on this map:
http://www.artistsagainstwindfarms.com/walks/queens-exhibition/fullabrook-folder/fullabrook-image-map.html

If you click on the button between turbines 9 and 12 you can see a painting I did of a sheep and her lambs, on the hill as it was before the diggers moved in. (Apologies for the fact that one or two of the links no longer work, it needs updating)
Christine Lovelock

Andrea Leadsom Mp

Good to see this article by Andrea Leadsom MP on the ConservativeHome blog's Comment page:

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2011/02/andrea-leadsom-mp-onshore-wind-farms.html

Follow this link and watch the video:

Great news from Ontario...

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20110213/wind-farm-moratorium-110213/

"John Laforet, president of Wind Concerns Ontario, discusses Ontario's moratorium on off-shore wind farms on Feb. 13, 2011."

How good it was to hear the CTV Presenter explaining that when wind turbines were described as "too Green" this did not mean "too Green" in the environmental sense. John Laforet gives a most excellent interview.