General Issues
The links below cover some of the many general questions concerning wind power. SHOWT takes no responsibility for the views expressed in these documents, but they make interesting reading.
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- Industrial Wind Action Group - "facts, analysis, exposure of wind energy’s real impacts."
- Council for the Protection of Rural England: Policy on Wind Farms (PDF)
- The Scottish Wind Assessment Project - "An ongoing programme of research which seeks to collate existing studies and commission new research to promote a thorough investigation of the claims made for and against the use of wind-generated energy."
- Views of Scotland - States that, "the case for wind power is seriously flawed from a scientific, economic and political perspective. Construction of wind power stations is causing unjustifiable and irreversible damage to some of Scotland’s greatest assets."
- Renewable Energy Foundation - "...encourages the development of renewable energy and energy conservation whilst safeguarding the landscapes of the UK from unsustainable industrialisation."
- ABS Energy Research - 'The Wind Power Report' (August, 2006). "The Wind Power Report is the most important we have produced to date; providing the most comprehensive study of the wind power market today."
- Country Guardian - "National Campaign to oppose wind turbines in Britain’s precious landscapes and promote energy conservation."