“I’m red hot, I’m boiling” said David Paton after hearing that the council ignored their own advice to object to the proposed 16-turbine Greenburn wind farm. Mr Paton lives less than 2000m from the site just west of New Cumnock and is furious at the council for letting this development Read more
Thank you to Stephen Lucking for all his hard work compiling this data. This document ranks Reporters in terms of their decisions on windfarms. “REFUSED” and “ALLOWED” refer to decisions on appeals while decisions on S36 schemes are shown as “S36 YES” when the Report recommended approval and “S36 Read more
A nesting osprey chick thought to have been scared off by filming for a TV show died before production began after it flew into a wind turbine, a wildlife organisation has revealed. The grim discovery was made on August 6 by the wind farm operator RWE Renewables at Clocaenog, according Read more
Boris Johnson seems to have had a change of heart. Despite once saying that wind turbines couldn’t “pull the skin off a rice pudding”, the prime minister recently announced his intention to turn the UK into “the Saudi Arabia of wind power”, increasing the government’s offshore wind target to 40 Read more
The true cost of wind power is staggering and, despite wild claims to the contrary, is becoming more even expensive, not less so. Dr John Constable and Gordon Hughes have done what the mainstream media have never done and what renewable energy rent seekers would rather they didn’t: they’ve opened Read more
SINCE Boris Johnson announced his intention to have every home in Britain running on wind-generated power within ten years, TCW has run three articles on the topic. On Friday we pointed out that the wind does not blow all the time, so there is always a need for back-up generation, Read more