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PROTEST AT PERTH ON SATURDAY OCTOBER 20TH
Your voice is the only way we can hope to halt this. Please support this initiative by independent campaigners, and join the protest in Perth on the 20th October.
Please bring your own leaflets and placards and banners highlighting your own particular plight, or showing how you feel about the wind farm policy foisted upon us all. It has recently been in the letters pages of the press that industrial wind farm development should be linked to Independence. The general feeling has been that if the Scottish Government cannot be trusted with protecting it's people in rural communities and the wider environment from speculative and greedy wind farm developers then how can it be trusted with Independence? The question of Independence seems to be the government's top priority and interest at the moment so it may be worth reminding them that those adversely affected will probably not be voting for such a change.
The protest will take place at noon at the Concert Hall. This will enable protesters to be in place when the SNP members come in and out for lunch. If Salmond is there his speech will probably be at 3pm if past conferences are anything to go by. It would be good to have a large gathering of people outside protesting while he is speaking . The possibility of a march is being explored. If it is feasible, it will be confirmed to you all as soon as possible and the intention will be to gather at 11am at a location to be revealed nearer the time. So arrangements to be in Perth at 11am would be advisable.
Any ideas for slogans, chants, placards, banners and stunts will be much appreciated and can be made on the Stop St Andrews University Wind Farm Facebook page under Events or in postings. You will need to ask to join the page in order to make a post. Alternatively an email has been set up war.on.wind@btinternet.com for you to use. If you are thinking of coming to the protest on 20th, please indicate on facebook, or email war.on.wind contact details so we can get in touch directly if there are any changes to the schedule and to enable us to keep you updated of any future events.
Please bring your own leaflets and placards and banners highlighting your own particular plight, or showing how you feel about the wind farm policy foisted upon us all. It has recently been in the letters pages of the press that industrial wind farm development should be linked to Independence. The general feeling has been that if the Scottish Government cannot be trusted with protecting it's people in rural communities and the wider environment from speculative and greedy wind farm developers then how can it be trusted with Independence? The question of Independence seems to be the government's top priority and interest at the moment so it may be worth reminding them that those adversely affected will probably not be voting for such a change.
The protest will take place at noon at the Concert Hall. This will enable protesters to be in place when the SNP members come in and out for lunch. If Salmond is there his speech will probably be at 3pm if past conferences are anything to go by. It would be good to have a large gathering of people outside protesting while he is speaking . The possibility of a march is being explored. If it is feasible, it will be confirmed to you all as soon as possible and the intention will be to gather at 11am at a location to be revealed nearer the time. So arrangements to be in Perth at 11am would be advisable.
Any ideas for slogans, chants, placards, banners and stunts will be much appreciated and can be made on the Stop St Andrews University Wind Farm Facebook page under Events or in postings. You will need to ask to join the page in order to make a post. Alternatively an email has been set up war.on.wind@btinternet.com for you to use. If you are thinking of coming to the protest on 20th, please indicate on facebook, or email war.on.wind contact details so we can get in touch directly if there are any changes to the schedule and to enable us to keep you updated of any future events.
Struan Stevenson (MEP) The Renewable Rape of Scotland
 Meeting between Fergus Ewing MSP, Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism and Mrs Lyndsey Ward and Mr Stuart Young - download pdf below
 The first great requisite of motive power is; that it shall be wholly at our command, to be exerted when, and where, and in what degree we desire.The wind, for instance, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of the country would be thrown out of gear.
William Stanley Jevons (1865)  Analysis of UK Wind Generation
A must-read staggering report produced by Stuart Young in association with The John Muir Trust Read the summary and download the full report at this link on The John Muir Trust website LINK  Another Report from The John Muir Trust
Scotland is still reliant on electricity imported from England, despite a claim by the First Minister Alex Salmond last month that “Scotland hasn’t imported electricity for donkey’s years.”Read the full article on The John Muir Trust website
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Windfarms in Scotland were paid £900,000 to switch off for one night! READ
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Thoughts on this latest Breaking BBC News item
When the wind isn't blowing hard enough-they put virtually nothing into the National Grid. When it's optimum wind-they get paid to shut down-What ????
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Taking The Wind
Out of Wind Power
If you’re hankering to see Britain’s green and pleasant land and rugged coastline, don’t wait too long. In an increasingly desperate bid to meet its EU climate and renewable-energy targets, the British government is planning to build 10,000 onshore and offshore wind turbines – many 400 feet high – over the next 10 years.
By Peter Glover October 2010
Read the full text at this page
Buy his book here (Pub 2011)
February 10th 2011
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