Links

SWAG is not alone ... a number of websites already document the impacts of existing wind farm developments on the countryside and the people who live nearby.

Find out what they have to say:-

• Views of Scotland(vofs)
  This is an umbrella organisation formed as a result of windfarm klondyking we are seeing all over Scotland- well worth a visit, especially to see the windfarm map of Scotland.   
  http://www.viewsofscotland.org
  
  
• MAIWAG - Marton, Askam & Ireleth Windfarm Action Group 
  Marton, Askam and Ireleth are neighbouring villages located in the south of Cumbria just outside the Lake District National Park. Their 'local' windfarm has 7 x 66-Kw wind turbines 40m to the hub, a 47m blade diameter making a total height of 63.5 metres (208 feet). They are NOT happy:- 
  http://www.windfarm.fsnet.co.uk
  
  
• Country Guardian:
  A UK conservation group focused on the environmental damage caused by commercial windfarms in areas of national or local landscape value:- 
  http://www.countryguardian.net
  
  In particular this Country Guardian page on the effects on Tourism, which is both directly and indirectly the lynchpin of the Skye economy:-  http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/windfarms/case.htm#ktourismetc
  
  
• McWAG: the Meikle Carewe Windfarm Action Group
  Rural Netherley in the N.E. of Scotland near Stonehaven (south of Aberdeen):- http://mcwag.members.beeb.net
  
  
• Not On Ark Hill
  Protecting the landscape and economy of Angus, Scotland from the effects of misplaced wind power stations:-
  http://noahnews.members.beeb.net
  
  
• Cefn Croes Wind Farm Campaign
  A community fighting wind farm plans in the Cambrian Mountains:-
  http://www.cefncroes.org.uk
  
  
• The Barningham High Moor Coalition
  Plans to build a wind farm on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park were evenyually defeated:-
  http://www.wind-farm.co.uk
  
  
• Misplaced Wind Power
  The campaign site of the town of Addison in the USA, affected by a nearby Wind Farm:-
  http://www.misplacedwindpower.com/links_to_europe.htm
  
  
• Ray Berry
  http://www.wind-farm.org
  
  
• Scotland Wind Watch
  A new political party set up to take on the politicians  who are hell bent on destroying our landscape head on.    
  http://www.saveourhills.org