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This page provides links to the web sites of other campaign groups and information sources. Links to other campaigns
Sober - Save our borderland environment. Sober is a voluntary group of people whose aim is to protect the landscape and wildlife of the Oswestry and Welsh Borderlands from insensitively sited wind-driven power stations. Views of Angus An example of a planning application being rejected and lots more useful information. Preservation of Weardale The Preservation of Weardale are a group born out of the need to protect our local landscape, in Weardale it is wild and rugged country the hills are sparse of trees and are grazed by sheep.
Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales A conservation organisation that includes both the human and natural environments within its area of activity. It attempts to see what changes can be allowed that will not damage the enduring qualities that make our countryside so precious. CPRW defines action that needs to be taken to defend those qualities in terms of influencing the planning system and decision-makers both locally and nationally. The web site gives the CPRWs view on Government policy concerning wind power. www.countryguardian.net Country Guardian is a UK conservation group focused on the environmental damage caused by commercial windfarms in areas of national or local landscape value. It is not opposed to wind energy as such, but believes that in practice almost all onshore sites which are windy enough are environmentally sensitive. The fight for Nantucket Sound Lots of links and interesting info. An ill wind - windfarms in Ireland. interesting arguments against windfarms Meickle Carewe - a successful (so far) campaign in Scotland British Horse Society - policy statement on wind farms Links to other information ISVR Consultancy A consultancy that has carried out projects on the generation and propagation of noise from wind turbine generators (WTGs) and since 1991 has assisted a number of local planning authorities in dealing with the noise aspects of planning applications for windfarms. British Wind Energy Association Windworks Link to the site |
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Last modified: September 19, 2004 |
