petitions

Downing Street is working in partnership with the non-partisan charitable project mySociety to provide a service to allow citizens, charities and campaign groups to set up petitions that are hosted on the Downing Street website, enabling anyone to address and deliver a petition directly to the Prime Minister.

Please consider signing the following petitions:

There is a fear of the Forestry Commission using forests to plant industrial wind farms and that wind developers might buy up our forests for the same purpose. The Country Landowners Association have always pursued a policy of making money out of wind farms. Fortunately, not all their members are tarred with the same greedy brush
www.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/save-our-forests#petition	43652 signatures on 3/11/10
There is another petition - PROTECT GREEN JOBS - on the ‘38degrees’ website which makes it even more important that we get huge support to save our forests from potentially green destruction. Green jobs that involve insulating buildings are fine, but the illustration of wind turbines shows what it’s really about

The following petitions have now been responded to by the Prime Minister's Office
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/ETSU-R97Failings Submitted by Julie Hauserman	Deadline: 3 June 2010 Signatures: 1,250
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to set up an independent working party of acousticians and medical experts to fully explore the problems of wind turbine noise and the health consequences as ETSU-R-97, the measurement presently used, is invalid and does not protect our communities from unbearable noise pollution

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/WindFarmHealth/#detail Submitted by Mr. Anthony James Leatham	Deadline: Wed 9 Sep 2009 Signatures: 962
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to assess RESPONSIBLY the health impacts of wind turbines and set a minimum set back distance of 2km

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/no-wind-turbines Submitted by Baz Barrett	Deadline: Thu Jun 26 2008 Signatures: 472
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Stop erecting wind turbines. 1000 tonnes of concrete is required to install each turbine. Concrete production is the second most polluting industrial process in the world. Wind turbines produce a low and unreliable source of power that cannot be relied upon, so conventional power stations are kept running as backup anyway. Wind Turbines are noisy and spoil our landscape. Please prevent any more from being installed

href=http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/windfarm-blight Submitted by Melton Wood Action Group	Deadline: Wed Jul 23 2008 Signatures: 765
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to stop all current on-shore windfarm development in Greenbelt areas until a national planning policy for renewable energy has been established

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/2000metres Submitted by M Caswell	Deadline: Wed Apr 29 2009 Signatures: 4275
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Establish an automatic buffer zone of at least 2 km between any new industrial size wind turbine and any home [editorial comment: Community Windfarms Ltd have decided that 750m is enough separation from homes!]

The following petitions have now closed

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/biogasintogrid Submitted by Steffen Taschner	Deadline: Sat Aug 22 2009 Signatures: 14
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Amend the Renewable Obligation to support introduction of upgraded biogas into UK gas networks. [editorial comment: A genuine green energy solution - burning methane produced from rubbish. It turns out that methane is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide - 20 times worse. Greenhouse Gases and Society by Nick Hopwood and Jordan Cohen, University of Michigan]

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Withernwick Submitted by Penny Akehurst	Deadline: Fri Jul 3 2009 Signatures: 29
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Stop the windfarm at Withernwick. [editorial comment: Does this sound familiar? Another rural community targetted by the windfarm industry]

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/windpower Submitted by F.E.Sharpe of Indevidual	Deadline: Tue May 13 2008 Signatures: 552
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Stop pushing for wind turbines against the wishes of the public.