After 80 years of Hydro SSE renewables is offering Community Benefit to those impacted by Hydro. With the new substations not before time. However the devil is in the detail and despite a promise of £10million over 54 hydro plants it will be spread over five years. Which is £37k per community. Of course that is not how it will work with some getting largesse and some getting nought.
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"The trouble with wind farms is that they have a very large spatial footprint for a piddling little bit of electricity. You would need 8oo turbines to produce the output of a coal-fired power station."
Sir Martin Holgate, Chief Scientist at the Department of the Environment of the British Government - October 2004
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- Alan Sloman's Big Walk
- Altt Duine Wind Farm
- AWED
- Big Pond
- Caithness Windfarms Information Forum
- Cartoons by Josh
- Chris Townsend Outdoors
- Climate Lessons
- Communities against Turbines – Scotland
- Concerned about Wind Turbines
- Donna Laframboise – NOconsensus.org
- Donna Quixote – Dougal's country cousin
- Fenbeagle
- Germany's Bio-Energy Villages
- Go-Petition on Windfarmaction
- Hiome made renewable
- Ideas on Wind-a personal view
- Illwind on Facebook
- It's in the Wind
- John Droz Energy Presentation
- John Muir Trust
- Little Raith Wind Farm
- Marine and Offshore Renewables Newsletter
- McAlisterium on Scottish Elections
- Non illigitamus Carborundum
- Protect Wild Scotland
- PV Solar Information
- Scotland against Spin
- Scottish Climate and Energy Forum
- Scottish Wild Land Group
- South West Wind Action Group
- Stop Smart Meters
- Stuart Crawford-Money or Energy?
- Stuart Young Visualisations
- The War of the Whirls
- UK Energy App for iPhone
- Vertical Axis Wind Turbines
- West Virginia Highlands Voice
- Wind Energy's Absurd
- Windbyte
- Windmills Everywhere – an OTT viewpoint
- Winter in Strathglass by Gavin Macrae
Stats
Turbine Tales
Turbine Truths
- Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions
- Amplitude Modulation
- Bird Deaths under reported
- Blimps
- Braes of Doune Eco Vandalism
- Bruce Macphearson Infrasound and Low Frequency Noise Study
- Counter Rotation-Are modern wind collectors efficient?
- David Bellamy on Climate Change
- Dick and Jane Talk Wind Power
- Energy Ghosts
- European Platform Against Wind Farms
- Fighting Wind Farms
- Global Wind Energy – The Human Impact
- Graham Martin's Raptor Collisions
- Gridwatch
- Health Concerns – US report
- Infrasound and Low frequency noise
- Interactive Offshore Map to 2050
- John Droz Energy Presentation
- John Muir Trust Report
- Living with Turbines
- Low Frequency Noise
- Marine Impact of Turbines
- Materials Required for the Land-Based Wind Turbine Industry From 2010 Through 2030 Scientific Investigations
- Noise – Dick Bowdler Accoustician
- Noise – National Physics Laboratory
- Non illigitamus Carborundum
- Perceptions of Wind Farms
- Property Prices, The Truth
- Rare Earth Elements – World Resources
- Report to the House of Lords
- Rupert Soames speech to Scottish Government
- Safety of Wind Systems
- Save the Eagles International
- Scotland's Geothermal Potential
- SNH Map of Scottish Wind Farms 2013
- Spain's Green Energy Disaster
- Sustainable Energy-without Hot Air by David MacKay
- The Selby Booklet
- The Skeptic's Handbook
- The Society of Wind Vigilance
- The Truth of Climate Data
- The Visual Issue
- Tourism – Blue Seas Green Energy
- VisitScotlandWindFarms
- Wind Farm Action Group
- Wind Farm data (Variable Pitch)
- Wind Farm Noise effect on Health – Revision
- Wind Farm Victims
- Wind inceases CO2
- Wind Turbine Property Losses
- Wind Turbines, The Facts by The Scientific Alliance
- Wind Watch World News
- Windfarm traffic
- Winds of Justice
- Worth the Candle – Exec Summary
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