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This page is an alternative way for you to explore Country Guardian's website. Think of it as an index, with the top level of headings based on the main links shown in the navigation bar of each page. In each case you need to access the top level page itself to reach the lower links.

Home Page. Contains a short statement of Country Guardian's objectives, and some  recent news items  with links to the news behind the headlines.  

What's wrong with windfarms? The Case Against. - The full version of The Case Against Windfarms, which can be downloaded and distributed freely. The index, with links to individual chapters, is show at the top of the page and is listed here for information

A. The case for windfarms
B. The scale of development required
C. The problem of intermittency
D. Landscape quality of wind 'farm' sites'
E. Beauties or beasts?
F. Windturbines offshore
G. The noise factor
H. Television Interference
I. Wider environmental consequences
J. Safety
K. Tourist, jobs, house prices
L. The effect on birds
M. Public opinion
N. Why the new phenomenon of windfarms?
O. Government policy
P. European Union policy
Q.Kyoto
R. Wind 'farms' and the planning system
S. The futility of supply-side solutions
T. How can electricity needs be met?
U. The value of landscape
V. Conclusion

Guide to UK windfarm developments.- The Internet version of Country Guardian's Guide to UK Windfarms - The Red Booklet. This is published annually in hard copy. This Internet version is  updated throughout the year in line with developments

	Overview and map of the UK, showing the zones used in the Guide
	Introduction, which includes definitions and notes on the current layout.
	List A. Current windfarm projects
	List B. Projects rejected or withdrawn
	List C. Commissioned or authorised windfarms
	List D. Inactive NFFO/SRO sites

Witnesses for the Prosecution - Published articles, poems, etc making the case against windfarms, including two recent article by Simon Jenkins in The Times.

	Two articles by Simon Jenkins in The Times
	Two letters from Lotta Nilsson, about the effect of windfarms on people living nearby
	"Mr Blair will blow millions on windpower", article by Christopher Booker in The Sunday Telegraph
	"When The Wind Blows", article by Angela Kelly, Country Guardian, in the Journal of the Faculty of Building
	House of Lords debate on Wind Energy, as reported in Hansard
	The Darmstadt Manifesto, signed by 60 academic critics of windfarms in Germany
	"Blot on the Landscape" article from the Evening Mail, Cumbria
	"The Case against Land-based Wind Power in Britain", an article by Dr John Etherington, formerly Reader in Ecology, University of Wales
	Two windfarm protest poems, My Hill and The Windmills of Ystumtuen

Environmental damage. Material covering issues such as   landscape, noise, safety, etc. It is  cross-linked to The Case Against Windfarms, and to the following:.

	Landscape damage and visual intrusion -  includes scale models of wind turbines
	The value of landscape -   an account of the battle to save Wharrels Hill in Cumbria
	Wind turbines offshore, including UK government policy and problems with MoD
	Noise, including a report from the University of Groningen in Germany, and a local newspaper report about the ongoing battle over the existing windfarm at Askam in Cumbria
	Television Interference
	Safety, including the danger to horses,  an account of windfarm accidents in Germany  and MoD concerns about low-flying aircraft
	Tourism, jobs, house prices, including several letters from estate agents
	The effect on birds

Windfarms and Planning. Articles, Guidelines, Government papers about relevant planning issues.

	External links to the Government's Green Paper on Planning and its Energy Review, with brief summaries
	External link reference to The Royal Town Planning Institute's Planning Practice Standards for Environmental Impact Assessments
	PPS22. Planning Policy Guideline 22 - Renewable Energy. Consultation paper published 4 November 2003

Government Policy. This also covers the windpower industry, as the government's "partnership" with industry becomes more evident.

	The Regions. The relevance of the Planning Green Paper and the emerging shadowy role of the English Regions, including a map.
	The implications of the Renewables Obligation
	Wind Resource by Region, according to the British Wind Energy Association
	The Government's allocation of the Renewables Obligation to the English Regions and Scotland and Wales
	A Review of the Government's Energy White Paper (Feb 2003). particularly as it affects windfarm developments

Technical Issues for wind energy. Technical problems indicating the unreliability, intermittency and other technical weaknesses of wind energy.

	Introduction - Inefficiency, Intermittency Distribution
	Intermittency. NETA dishes the dirt on wind energy
	Limits to Renewables - how electricity grid issues may constrain the growth of distributed distribution, an article published in World Energy, the Journal of the Institute of Energy

UK opposition groups. There are well over 40 windfarm opposition groups in the UK, all of them independent of Country Guardian.

Windfarms world-wide. Country Guardian does not try to keep track of all windfarm groups, but in some cases   parallel situations arise,
as in the case of The Danish Dilemma. Look also at the Links page

Links. Internet links to other campaign group websites, UK and elsewhere.

Global Warming. Briefing papers, book reviews, letters and articles  which increasingly document the weaknesses in the "Global Warming" hypothesis, whilst not not questioning the basic science of the 'greenhouse effect'

	The Tyndall Climate Change Research Centre has been set up to fill the big gaps that exist in our knowledge of the science of climate change
	Review of The Skeptical Environmentalist by  Danish Statistics Professor Bjorn Lomborg, the best-selling book which has questioned the policies of the Intercontinental Panel on Climate Change and the Kyoto Agreement. Also a review from The Times of a BBC TV  programme devoted to the book.
	Details of Climate Science and Policy: Making the Connection : produced by the European Science and Environment Forum

About Country Guardian.

History, Contact names, Membership Application Form and Country Guardian's   Policy on Windfarms.