Environmental Issues
The links below cover some of the many environmental questions concerning wind power. SHOWT takes no responsibility for the views expressed in these documents, but they make interesting reading.
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- Country Guardian - "Country Guardian "National Campaign to oppose wind turbines in Britain’s precious landscapes and promote energy conservation."
- CPRE Policy on Wind Farms (PDF)
- CPRE: "Wind Farm Free-for-all Threatens Countryside" (PDF) CPRE case studies exploring "...serious weaknesses in the planning regime for onshore wind farms."
- John Muir Trust - Renewables Campaign - The UK's leading wild land conservation charity believes that, "industrial-scale wind developments, are a major threat to our rapidly diminishing wild land".
- National Trust - 'A call for the wild' - "the modest benefits of wind turbines must be carefully measured against their environmental and social costs".
- RSPB 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."
- The British Horse Society: Advisory Satement No. 20. Wind Farms. (PDF)