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The Case against windfarms

 

UK Windfarm Action Groups

October 31 2004

This list is been compiled as a guide and reference to assist windfarm action groups to contact each other. As of now 73 of these groups appear in the list and new ones are being formed regularly – and are updated to the website.

 Many of the groups  are group members of Country Guardian and many have individual members who are also CG members. However, it is important to emphasise that Country Guardian does not have 'branches' and that all these groups are totally autonomous, having been formed originally as a result of windfarm developments planned for their local countryside. Country Guardian's role has been to research the impact of windfarms and the arguments put forward to promote them, and make this information available as widely as possible. Increasingly the groups are building up a national and indeed international network, visiting each other and exploiting email and Internet sites to communicate.

This list is published in Country Guardian's bi-annual newsletter Openview, and on its Internet site: www.countryguardian.net

Please contact the editor on 01494 680275, or michaelhird@tiscali.co.uk to correct errors.

 

Area

Group Name

Contact Name

Address

Phone/fax/
email/website

Scotland overall

 Views of Scotland (VoS)

 

 

www.viewsofscotland.org

Sutherland

Landscape

Ruth Whittaker

48 Gartymore
Helmsdale
Sutherland
W8 6HJ

T. 01431 821380

Isle of Lewis

Mountains Without Turbines (MWT)

 

 

committee@mwtlewis.org.uk Massive development, small population. This group needs funds  

Isle of Skye

Skye Windfarm Action Group

 

 

www.sw-ag.org

Strathbogie (Aberdeenshire)

STRAWS (Strathbogie Tourists and Residents Against Windfarm Stitch-up)

Vicki Spencer

 

pvs@medix-uk.com www.mortlachsporting.com

Aberdeen-shire (Stonehaven)

McWAG (Meikle Carewe Windfarm Action Group

Email, and details  on website

 

Mcwag@beeb.net
http://mcwag.members.beeb.net

Aberdeen-shire -  Clashin-darroch

Friends of the Clash

 

 

www.huntly.net/savetheclash.htm

Moray -

Communities Against Pylons

Communities fighting a proposed 400kV pylon line from Beauly to Denny

 

strathcap@aol.com

Scottish Highlands

Highlands Before Pylons

 

 

www.hbp.org.uk

Tayside

ASWAG (Amultree and Strathbaan Wind farm Action Group)

Gordon Flint

 

www.aswag.org.uk

Angus

NoAH (Not on Angus Hills)

Jane Brewster

Easter Denoon
Glamis
Angus DD8 1SY

T/F. 01307 840313

jbrewster@ntlworld.com

Perthshire

Mellock Hill Action Groups

William Starkey

 

www.mellockhillactiongroup.org.uk

Perthshire

Ochils Environmental Protection Group

 

 

www.oepg.org.uk

Ardna-murchan and Mull

 

Ken Bowker

info@fairwind.org.uk

www.fairwind.org.uk

Fife

Clatto Landscape Protection Group (CLPG)

Gordon Lochhead

 

www.clatto.org.uk
clpg@tesco.net

Argyll

 

Lawrence King

 

T. 01866 833208
F.01866 833280

Mid-Argyll & Kintyre

 

Andrew Russell

Tigh Na Leven
Kilberry Road

Tarbert
Argyll PA29 6XX

www.argyllwindfarms.com

info@argyllwindfarms.com

South Lanarkshire

Friends of Stallashaw Moss

Ian Aitchison

Thistlebank
Auchgray
Carnwath
South Lanarkshire
ML11 8LL

T: 01501 785389
friends@stallashaw.org

Dumfries & Galloway

Trees Not Turbines Save The Ae Forest

Sarah Burchell

 

sarahburchell@btconnect.com

Scottish Borders

Peter Hodgson

 

 

T. 01387 375375
hodgson.copshaw@ntlworld.com

Scottish Borders – Lammermuir Hills

Lammermuirs Protection Group (LPG)

 

tba

 

Upper Weardale

Weardale Preservation Group

Keith Laidler

 

  tel 01388517600
fax 01388517003

Cumbria North

COLT (Communities Opposing Lamonby turbines)

Ruth Walsh

 

www.nolamonby
windfarm.co.uk

Cumbria North West

FORCE (Friends of Rural Cumbria's Environment)

Avril Hemsley-Rose

Catlands Foot
Mealsgate
Wigton
Cumbria CA71DF                          

force@highpow.co.uk

www.highpow.co.uk

Cumbria (East)

FELLS (Friends of Eden Lakeland and Lunedale)

Belinda Lancing

Firbank House, Nr Sedburgh
Cumbria

F. 015397 20465
http
:// garsmeth.
members.beeb.net

Cumbria West

Group25

Gerald Sewell

Holme Lea,
Brayton Road
Aspatria CA7 3DN

T 01697 321170 

 

Cumbria South West

M.A.I.W.A.G.
(Marton, Askam & Irelith WAG)

David Brierley

 

T 01229 462912
www.windfarm.

fsnet.co.uk

Cumbria SouthEast

Whinash

 

 

www.nowhinashwindfarm.co.uk

East Yorkshire (Holderness)

SHOWT (South Holderness Opposes Windfarms)

Bernard Jull

 

T. 01964 612130
F. 0870 1371135
bernard.jull@ntlworld.com

East Riding

(Rusholme)

Residents of Aimlyn Against Windfarm

Steve Armitage

 

Mobile. 07949 187 628 steve@airmyn.com
www.airmyn.com

South Pennines

Federation of Windfarm Opposition Groups

Brian Cullinan

2 Fearnley Cottages
Hebden Bridge

HX78 2NT

T 01422 843938

Lancashire

Scout Moor Opposition Group

 Ann Metcalfe   

The Chapel
Red Lumb   Norden 
Rochdale              OL12 7TX          

www.scoutmoor.com

South Pennines
Saddleworth Moor

Saddleworth Moor Action Group

Chris Foster

 

www.noturbinesin.
saddleworth.net 

Lancashire, Uglow Moor

 

Vicci Hollinshead

 

scvp@
hollinsheadv.
freeserve.co.uk 

Rossendale, Lancs

Rossendale Against Windfarms

Alan Johnson

c/o 10 Pendle Close
Bacup OL13 9JT

T. 01706 877521

South Yorkshire
Humberside Levels

Thorne and District Windfarm Action Group
(TDWAG)

Keith Heywood

15 South End
Thorne
Doncaster
S Yorks
DN8 5QN

webmaster@
tdwag.org.uk 

Staffordshire

 

Abbots Bromley and Marchington Woodlands Action Group

Mark Newstead

 

T 01889 560074                  marknewstead@sothebys.com

Cotswolds

Cotswolds Protection Group

Ian Blair

Field Farm
Nympsfield
Stonehouse
Glos. GL10 3UQ

T. 01453 860256

 

Lincolnshire, Boston

Bicker Against The Turbines (BATT)

Charles Hickson

 

T 01205 821077
batt@email.com

Lincolnshire, Nocton Fen,

 

Richard Abraham

 

"Richard" rickabr@susupanet.com

North Norfolk Coast