They did it! Carole and Andy Hall and Jinny and John Casey have climbed Suilven in Scotland to raise funds for Preserve. This is Suilven in the far north of Scotland that Carole Hall decided she would like to climb to raise funds for Preserve. She has been going to this area, where her sister [...]
“Too many developments [of wind turbines] are under-performing. It’s because developers grossly exaggerate the potential. The subsidies make it viable for developers to put turbines on sites they would not touch if the money was not available.” Michael Jefferson, Professor of International Business and Sustainability, London Metropolitan Business School, quoted in the Sunday Times. If [...]
Did you know? Your house price could fall over 15% by being near wind turbines The turbines will be less than 25% efficient That each of the 12,500 homes these turbines provide power for will pay £218 in subsidies/year These turbines could affect your sleep and health. Planned noise levels exceed those known to cause [...]
The first independent study to rate farms according to how much electricity they produce shows that wind farms south of the Scottish border are not generating as much as the Government assumed when it set the target of producing a tenth of Britain’s energy from renewables by 2010 and 15 per cent by 2015. Despite [...]
