Highlands of Scotland

.We all need sound solutions for clean reliable affordable energy

We believe that wind power is not delivering that aim and cannot deliver that aim
Focused on Scotland - working with UK Action Groups for a national voice

_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

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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
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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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Slideshow Images taken from windfarms across the UK and elsewhere.The first slide is a photomontage of a 500 foot turbine placed to scale alongside The Kessock Bridge in Inverness © Neil Paterson

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Other Sites

"The Great Forgetting"

Visit the website HERE
Buy the book HERE

Windfarms in Scotland were paid £900,000 to switch off for one night! READ
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Enough is Enough!!!-Copy to your mailing lists/sites
Scots windfarms PAID to stop producing energy!
Read the full long story at BBC Online HERE

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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