mendacity GEORGE MONBIOT is one of the world's most influential radical thinkers. A weekly columnist for the Guardian, he is also the best-selling author of The Age of Consent and Captive State. In 1995, Nelson Mandela presented him with a United Nations Global 500 Award for outstanding environmental achievement. In his book Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning, at the start of his chapter on renewable energy he says: There are many things I dislike about renewable energy, or - to be more precise - about the industry that promotes it. I dislike the misleading claims its advocates make. I dislike the tokenism that attends it: a petrol company might put a wind turbine beside a filling station (because it is too far from the grid to make a connection worthwhile) and its customers think it has gone green. I dislike the way in which covering the countryside with wind turbines is often seen as a solution to our excessive consumption of fossil fuel, as if the new technology, in the absence of policy, replaced rather than simply augmented the old one In this section we expose the myths and misinformation put out by Community Windpower, the wind industry and the government
keeping the lights on (Click here)
performance (Click here)
visualisations
(How Big and How Near
- a paper by Colin Caudery)
noise (Click here) The wind industry and the government deny that there is a problem Click here for map of affected properties
birds at Davidstow (Paper by Arthur Boyt (Chairman of STINC))
Here is also the letter sent by Arthur Boyt to the Government of the SouthWest
the archaelogical perspective (Click here)
peat bogs (Click here) For other articles Click here |