By Rita Campbell
An Argyll grandmother who went to the United Nations to challenge the UK
government’s windfarm policy has claimed a notable victory.
Representing the tiny Avich and Kilchrenan community council, 69-year-old
Christine Metcalfe appeared before the UN’s economic commission for
Europe’s compliance committee in Geneva last December. Now the legal
tribunal has ruled that the UK Government acted illegally by denying the
public decision-making powers when they were drawing up the national
renewable energy action plan.
She claimed the UK’s renewables policies have been designed in such a way
that they have denied the public the right to be informed about the alleged
benefits in reducing CO and harmful emissions from wind power, or the
negative effects of wind power on health, the environment and the economy.
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