Documents
For speed of giving access to a wide range of documents, the first link below takes you to the document library of awfals.org.uk, the website of the action group Against WindFarm At Low Spinney in Market Harborough District.
Some documents will relate only to the proposed wind farm at Low Spinney, but many concern wind farms in general (both government publications and independent reports) that provide essential knowledge in arguing any case. The AWFALS' site gives a useful summary when you first click on a link, so you can see what the document is about, before viewing or downloading. Other links on this page are to documents we feel are relevant and there are also some documents relating to the arguments about whether wind farms are really 'green' on our green energy page.
New: concern that turbines are producing little energy. See also this article.
New: windfarms and birds of prey
Planning Policy Statement 22 (PPS22)
(Government Policy from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister)
East Midlands Regional Plan
Hinckley & Bosworth Local Plan
Renewable Energy Opportunities for Blaby, Harborough, Hinckley and Bosworth, Melton, North West Leicestershire, Oadby and Wigston and Rutland
National Wind Watch
Renewable Energy Foundation Comment on Government Strategy
Natural England: Guidance
Also containing matters of local pertinence:
British Horse Society: on Wind Farms; Response to Powys Proposal; an Appeal Decision
Bird life: RSPB concerns; Report in The Engineer; RSPB objection to Shetland wind farm;
RSPB press release
Health risk? USA study
Government Energy Usage Statistics
Roger Helmer MEP on Wind Energy
Danish governing party pulls back from wind farms
Some interesting views on renewables are beginning to emerge: Chief Scientific Officer for Climate Change and Eon (see especially items 8-11 in their submission to the House of Lords Select Committee)