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Call for Whitelee ‘pollution’ probe Sunday Times 8th February
A representation has been submitted to the DPEA against the latest Whitelee windfarm extension – on the basis of water contamination. This may be the first documented evidence of such an effect and it could have worldwide implications. dpea.scotland.gov.uk/CaseDetails. go to simple search and put in WIN-190-1 The submission went in on 5th February and you […]
Doctor claims Scotland’s biggest windfarm has contaminated public water supply with cancer-causing chemical
Doctor claims Scotland’s biggest windfarm has contaminated public water supply with cancer-causing chemical By Craig McDonald RACHEL Connor says samples taken from windfarm on Eaglesham Moor, Renfrewshire, were up to almost 70 per cent of recommended maximum. Test results obtained by Rachel Connor over a four-year period showed high levels of potentially cancer-causing chemical trihalomethane (THM). At […]
Open letter to DECC 17th November 2014
Sir, Please find An Open Letter to DECC plus three of the attachments referred to in the letter. This open letter is in response to this: Wind Power.rtf response from DECC 31-10-14 DECC letter of 31st October which in turn is a reply to this open letter I should like to draw your particular attention to the […]
Open letters re contaminated water supplies
The Scottish Government is proud to support windfarm development in suitable areas. How can the industrialisation of water catchment areas, once protected by law, be regarded as suitable? I believe that the current lack of consideration in allowing and promoting industrialisation of either public or private water catchment areas is contrary to the whole ethos […]
Responsibility and Accountability for testing for contamination of water supplies
Scottish Government approved Whitelee and its extensions under S36, but the conditions for development were devolved to the Local Authority to enforce. This is completely unreasonable in terms of governance. No one seems to take responsibility for proscribing either what test parameters are required ( eg hydrocarbons) or what the test intervals should be. So as […]
Contamination of public and private water supplies by windfarms
If you are concerned about windfarms and your water supply you must watch this video – you will not believe it could happen to our water supplies in the UK today: This post construction report: Scottish Power Renewables commissioned Jacobs to produce a post construction survey of groundwater change This video is widely circulating around the […]
External Links
European Platform Against Windfarms- IARO International Acoustic Research Organisation
- INWG Independent Noise Working Group
- National Wind Watch
- North American Platform Against Windpower
- Save the Eagles International
- Stop These Things
- The Society for Wind Vigilance
- The Waubra Foundation
- World Council For Nature