Resource Library Category: Scotland
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Documents presented here are not the product of nor are they necessarily endorsed by National Wind Watch. This resource library is provided to assist anyone wishing to research the issue of industrial wind power and the impacts of its development. The information should be evaluated by each reader to come to their own conclusions about the many areas of debate.
Aberdeenshire Noise Recording
Author: Beteigh
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Views of Scotland Brief: Strange Bedfellows
Author: Views of Scotland
With marketing resources beyond the dreams of many corporations, let alone community groups, Greenpeace has run several populist campaigns over the years supporting wind-driven power generation.
The political alliance between ‘big energy’ and eco-lobby groups is neither new nor secret. The 2002 marketing deal between Greenpeace and nuclear and coal-firing giant RWE, for example, was controversial but at least open.
The activities revealed here are less public but add an unsavoury dimension to the group’s campaigns.
• On its own behalf or in . . .
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Environmental issues at the Braes of Doune wind farm
Author: Philips, John
“This [August 2006] paper is a compilation of hitherto scattered pictorial incident reports rather than a systematic study but, as there seems to be no other record in the public domain of the events it records, it speaks for itself. …”
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Scandal on the Braes
Author: Friends of the Braes
Environmental Law and the River Teith Special Area of Conservation
“This report is published by Friends of the Braes, a liaison group set up in the light of the increasingly apparent environmental impact of the Braes of Doune wind farm. … The group aims to breach what it sees as a wall of silence surrounding the project with the express aim of containing the damage already done. It also hopes that its work will assist those assessing comparable projects elsewhere, in . . .
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