These sites are all extremely valuable and well worth visiting.            
The Two Moors Campaign is grateful for the dedication and hard work of all those providing this information.

All the bold underlined words are links you can click on.
 

                  Eon Submission to the House of Lords

 Eon are the biggest wind developers in Europe; here’s their submission re backup to the House of Lords
 Select Committee for Economic Affairs:

http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/EA311%20%2D%20Supplementary%20evidence%20from%20Eon.doc

Here’s the Renewable Energy Foundation’s written evidence to the UK’s  House of Lords Select Committee for Economic Affairs for their review on the Economics of renewable energy:

http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/EA327%20%2D%20supplementary%20evidence%20by%20REF%20%2D%20combined.doc
 

Denbrook

Save North Devon

Chilla

CLOWD accident data

Another excellent campaign group website including, amongst many other items, details of renewable energy sources other than wind.
 

Draw from here…Christine Lovelock is the daughter of James Lovelock, originator of the Gaia Hypothesis…

Christine would like to meet up with fellow artists especially those near Batsworthy Cross, a wonderful site, where the expansive landscape of Dartmoor and Exmoor unfolds before your eyes.
 

WHICH VANDALS ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT? 
A must for decision makers on wind turbines   
 

Moorland Without Turbines   Scroll down to bottom of this page for all pictures                                                  
RSPB on Lewis

 AMEC and British Energy appear on the BWEAs members list (see ‘Embrace the What?’)

Simon Jenkins in the Guardian     Plus Special Report on Renewable Energy
Parish Councils   
RSPB  on Romney  Marsh

NWP is now npower renewables and npower renewables appear on the BWEAs members list
(see ‘Embrace the What?’)
 

Despite the Lewis and Romney Marsh wind turbine proposals as above, the BWEA website states under

Top Myths About Wind Farms, “Myth: Wind Farms Kill Birds”:

“…BWEA members follow the industry's Best Practice Guidelines and work closely with organisations such as English Nature and the RSPB to ensure that wind farm design and layout does not interfere with sensitive species or wildlife designated sites.”

Here’s another of the BWEA websites Top Myths About Wind Farms, “Myth: Wind farms harm property prices”  which states

”Fact: There is currently no evidence in the UK showing that wind farms impact house prices.”

What about the evidence from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors report published on 3rd November ’04?

This report itself states ‘We have used information from the BWEA regarding the regional distribution of wind farms to derive weightings for the national results.’

“Embrace the wind” (come “Embrace the Revolution”)  is a BWEA associated website to promote wind.

Here its definition has been refined?    (See bottom right of picture)

Eon Netz are the largest operators of wind farms in the world. We must heed the sorry lessons of Denmark and Germany and not make the same mistakes. What have they sacrificed their landscapes for?

“Wind energy is only able to replace traditional power stations to a limited extent… and traditional power stations with capacities equal to 90% of the installed wind power capacity must be permanently online in order to guarantee power supply at all times.    

The increased use of wind power in Germany has resulted in uncontrollable fluctuations occurring on the generation side due to the random character of wind power feed-in.  This significantly increases the demands placed on the control balancing process.   

With the continued expansion of the use of wind energy in Germany, demand for standby reserve capacity will continue to rise, and will increase around fivefold by 2020.” 
 

Tyndall Centre Technical Report 30, July 2005 Conclusion 5, Security of decarbonised electricity systems:

"We observed that wind generation has a relatively small capacity credit. At lower levels of wind penetrations the capacity credit of wind generation is found to be about the same as the average load factor of wind. However, as the level of wind penetration rises, the capacity credit begins to tail off. That is why in order to maintain the same level of system security a significant capacity of conventional plant will still be required.
However, these conventional plants will be required to run either occasionally and/or at part load when shortages of supply are likely to occur due to a low total wind power output. Considering that conventional plants at full load are the most efficient and generate the lowest amount of CO2 emission (per electricity produced) such occasionally and/or part-loaded plants will be less utilised and/or produce more CO2 per electricity produced."
 

A report by the Council for Science and Technology  
 

With the Ramblers Association

“Other applications are expected to be made in the near future for sites in North Devon, East Devon and there are even rumours of sites being looked at in South of Devon. I would ask all R.A. members in Devon to actively support the campaign groups opposing such applications. The Devon landscape is the County's major asset and should be protected from these threats.”

RAs Renewable Energy Campaign   including the Ramblers' Association England policy on renewable energy.
 

Malcolm Keay of the Oxford University, Institute for Energy Studies comments in his critical report ‘Wind power in the UK: Has the Sustainable Development Commission got it right?’,   “…it is fair to ask it to present a properly argued case for wind power if it wants unwilling communities across the country to suffer the environmental consequences (and unknowing consumers to bear the cost). It has not done so”

Even the Sustainable Development Commissions report, “Windpower in the UK” , revised in November 2005, on page 31 states:

“…i<0pan>t would be unrealistic to assume that wind energy would displace any nuclear capacity…”                            

Our Energy Minister, Malcolm Wicks heralded the study of the UKs wind resource commissioned by the DTI from Oxford Universitys Environmental Change Institute as follows: “The only sensible debate about energy is one based on the facts. This new research is a nail in the coffin of some of the exaggerated myths peddled by opponents of wind power.”

”This new research shows that UK wind power delivers more energy at times of peak demand…”

However, in reply to question 140 in a house of lords select committee, the author of the research, Graham Sinden, replied:
”There will be times when you have quite low speeds and consequently you have low electricity output from it. The analysis that I ran was of wind speeds being so low that electricity would not be generated, that was the criteria for it. As I said, the single worse case in the last 21 years was 11 hours over summer when that did happen. If you raise the bar higher and say “We want 20 per cent output or 30 per cent output” then it may look a little bit different but we have not carried out that analysis”

This is rather like saying there’s no congestion on the roads because traffic is moving at 1mph!  
 

'Crystal Rig broken blade’ and according to the wind developer “it has happened at other wind farms”

‘Sunderland’s ‘safe’energy’  ‘“It was like a great flaming Catherine wheel," said a Sunderland resident just before Christmas, when flames engulfed one of the six 180-foot wind turbines’

Noise, including low frequency noise reports
40m long, exposed blades revolving at up to 150mph at their tip, are now erupting right next door to your roads, your footpaths, your bridleways, your friends, your visitors, your home and your loved ones.
 

Opinion - Michael Portillo           

 “According to the Commons public accounts committee, the total cost of subsidies paid to renewable energy suppliers could reach £5 billion by 2010, with additional costs for the power lines needed to ring the juice from the mountains and seas. We pay for it through our electricity bills… The turbines are to the countryside in our times what the tower blocks were to the cities in the 1960s. I look forward to the parties when, 40 years from now, we dynamite them.”