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These postings are provided to help publicize the efforts of affiliated groups and individuals related to industrial wind energy development. Most of the notices posted here are not the product of nor are they necessarily endorsed by National Wind Watch.
Action alerts, Press releases, Scotland, U.K., Wildlife
Source: David Bellamy and Mark Duchamp
Birdies bye bye
We have received the following message from Israel:
“Following a press release last week it seems that several of the leading industrial companies in Israel are going to enter the wind business. These are deeply connected to leading politicians. Our ministry of environment is quite hopeless. The future seems bleak.”
From Gibraltar, from Sicily, from the US, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and now from Israel, day by day more bad news comes in from the main bird migration flyways of the . . .
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Stop Wind Energy Development on Lewis
Wind Farms on the Isle of Lewis are on the verge of being rejected. Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond is being subjected to aggressive lobbying by the developers, despite the clear environmental harm that would result from such a massive development on peat bog, let alone the desecration of the wild landscape and the likely threat to important bird populations. Write to him in support of clear rejection of this ill-conceived project. Below are three sample letters, kindly provided by . . .
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More turbines planned for Argyll
Forgive us for imposing and asking for your help yet again, but we have a potentially grave situation developing in North Argyll. WRP wind have an advanced planning application for fourteen 110metre high wind turbines that would sit above Loch Awe and dominate the road and rail route to Oban.
Located in one of the Scotlands most productive Golden Eagle breading areas, Stacain would kill one of these magnificent birds each year Argyll and Butes planners are recommending the application is . . .
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