Stop Woodlane wind farm - before it's too late
Do not allow others to profit from changing our quiet rural environment to a noisy industrial landscape.
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Stop Woodlane wind farm - before it's too late |
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Do not allow others to profit from changing our quiet rural environment to a noisy industrial landscape.
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Wind Farm Spin
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Index to pages A look at other wind farms -and how they compare with Woodlane
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The Government's track record on spin - This is the age of spin. Do you remember :- - The nonexistent weapons of mass destruction - a fiction used to justify a hugely destructive and brutal invasion of Iraq which has cost this country many billions of pounds with no benefit. - The 20 minutes till doomsday scenario, whereby Iraq was supposedly capable of launching a missile attack on Britain within 20 minutes - while it then took us more than 20 weeks to prepare for our invasion of Iraq. - No more boom and bust. - British jobs for British workers. - ID cards to combat terrorism, please present your ID card before detonating a bomb. We have now moved on and the new, fast developing centre of expertise in the art of spin is the wind farm industry and the various bodies which support that industry, including trade associations, government agencies and the developers of wind farms. A few examples of Wind Farm spin - - House prices are not affected by wind farms. To prove this all you need to do is look at the price of houses 12km away from a wind farm, click here for more. Or you could exclude homes worth more than £400k. Neither the wind farm industry nor their supporters will do anything to compensate people within a mile or so of a wind turbine whose homes have lost up to 20% of their value. - Wind farm noise is not a problem. So why is there an bi-annual conference dedicated to wind farm noise and to wind turbine noise. Read more here, including links to a BBC news item and research papers. And why is it that a recent research paper found that 44 to 50% of people living within half a mile of a turbine were "highly annoyed " by noise levels and over a third of those living within half a mile had been awakened by turbine noise. - Wind turbine struck by UFO. The best spin ever. The fact that 9 turbines suffered blade failure in 2005, which made a total of 91 such failures up until the end of 2005 was never made public when a blade failure was reported earlier this year. The newspaper headline suggested it had been hit by a UFO. Convenient, no need to mention any of the incidents where wreckage from rotors weighing several tons had been thrown up to 400 metres from a turbine. - Socially
irresponsible to oppose a wind farm project - a
great sound bite from Ed Milliband. Its nice to know that the Gobvernment
is prepared to sanction the theft of up to 20% of the value of your home
by supporting the building of a wind farm within half a mile.
And
then making sure that you pay for it through higher electricity prices
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