18th February 2006

Glasgow Daily Record   UK   online edition
£1000 a year bill for energy   (article - web link)

BBC News   UK   online edition
Energy cost worry for home-buyers   (article - web link)

Mirror.co.uk   UK
Gastronomical   (article - web link)

The Times   UK   online edition
Being green   (article + web links for 17/02/06)

noticias info
EU: Why are competitive electricity and gas markets good for environment?
(article - web link)

EUROPA - Gateway to the European Union   online edition
Activities of the European Union - Energy   (web links)

Western Mail   UK   online edition
British Gas March 1 price hike 'scandalous'   (2 page article - web link)
What are the Seven Wonders of Wales?   (2 page article - web link)

South Wales Evening Post   UK   online edition
Act before it's too late   (letter - web link)
Far be it for me to pass judgement on how other people wish to live, but I fear that if a wind turbine was sited close to the above letter writer's home, it might very well blow away!!   See.... Tipi planning fight finally over   (article - web link)   19/01/06
Together we can win   (letter - web link)

Yorkshire Post Today   UK   online edition   17/02/06
Planners throw out moorland wind farm scheme   (article - web link)

Hawke's Bay Today   New Zealand   online edition
FEATURE: And the beat goes on ... and on and on   (article - web link)

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Sunday 19th February 2006

The Sunday Telegraph   UK   online edition
Christopher Booker's notebook - If you say no to turbines, you're 'prejudiced'
(article - web link)
Not energy matters, but......
Bird flu 'to arrive in Britain this week'   (article - web link)

Daily Herald   USA   online edition
Winds of change may blow into Spanish Fork   (article - web link)
The above article demonstrates another example of the 'Green Wire' syndrome.
More misinformation to the public on how an electrical power grid system operates; coming from the mouth of the CEO of a wind power developer.
There is no 'magic filter' available to the consumer which can determine one type of generated electricity on a grid system from another type of generated electricity. The only difference being is determined by what the consumer naively agrees to pay for in the 'small print' agreement to their own particular supplier.
Electricity is supplied to consumers from a common grid system which in turn is supplied by various methods of power generation.
When are the public going to realise that on a grid system, 'electricity is quite simply electricity', whether it is generated by fossil fuels, nuclear, hydro, or wind?

The Observer   UK   online edition
Will energy prices come off the boil?   (article - web link)
Airlines flying into turbulence over climate change law   (article - web link)
It's the wrong time to blow cold on global warming   (article - web link)

The Sunday Times   UK   online edition
Focus: The climate of fear   (4 page article - web link)
Hello, John - got a new pollution-busting motor?   (2 page article - web link)
Airtricity to cut off domestic customers   (article - web link)
Business Letters   (3 letters - web link)
Scroll down the ST web page to the 4th letter, "Energy Future" + "Wind Worries" and the following letter.

BBC News   UK   online edition
Solar-powered vision of the future   (article - web link)

Scotland on Sunday   UK   online edition
Radical rethink needed as Scots foot the bill for failed energy policies   (article - web link)

Glasgow Sunday Mail   UK   online edition
Gas rise pledge by minister   (article - web link)

The Independent   UK   online edition
Prezza's green rule angers all   (article - web link)

Swansea Sound Radio - Kevin Johns Sunday Hotline phone-in   UK
Announcement by radio presenter Kevin Johns   (.WAV file format 643 KB)
Audio file of 41 seconds duration, announcing the wind power debate scheduled for 5th March.
Copyright © Swansea Sound Radio 19/02/06.
Lyn Jenkins & radio presenter Kevin Johns   (.WAV file format 4 MB)
Audio file of 4 minutes 22 seconds duration, discussing the Waunarlwydd proposal and wind power.
Copyright © Swansea Sound Radio 19/02/06.
Steve ? & radio presenter Kevin Johns   (.WAV file format 4.78 MB)
Audio file of 5 minutes 13 seconds duration, discussing the Waunarlwydd proposal and wind power.
Copyright © Swansea Sound Radio 19/02/06.

Kevin Johns Swansea Sound Sunday Hotline   (web link)

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20th February 2006

The Guardian   UK   online edition
'Open skies' air treaty threat   (article - web link)

Cape Cod Times   USA   online edition   19/02/06
Turbine partisans put spin on proposed ban   (article - web link)
Possibly of some use to Scarweather Sands campaigners?

The Independent   UK   online edition
Britain's canals - the solution to overcrowded roads?   (article - web link)
Attenborough worried by dramatic loss of moths in UK   (article - web link)

Copyright © The Independent 20/02/06.

 

 

 

 

Out for a Duck!

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Avian flu and hysteria: the myths and the realities
(article - web link)

 

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Renewable Energy Access   online edition
European Wind Energy Conference & Exhibition   (article - web link)
Wind Power - Small Scale & Building Integrated   (article - web link)

Driffield Today   UK   online edition
Have your say on wind farm plan   (article - web link)

The Scotsman   UK   online edition
Rocketing energy costs fuel industry's worries   (article - web link)
Experts warn of blackout threat to London Olympics   (article - web link)

News.com.au   Australia   online edition
British industry fears blackouts   (article - web link)

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21st February 2006

There is a growing rumour in the valleys of 'Wild Wales' that wind turbine installations are creating an increase
in UFO activity.
To see if there is any truth in these whispers from the valleys...
Click Here

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BBC News   UK   online edition   20/02/06
Summit studies wind farm inquiry   (article - web link)
Wind powers 25-year energy dream   (article - web link)

Western Mail   UK
Mines, not N-plants
Fight wind threat   (2 letters - web link)
Scroll down the WM web page to the 4th & 5th letters.
Mining union battles charges for nursing care   (article - web link)
Paper mill to close with 135 jobs lost   (article - web link)
Oil depot blast report delayed   (article - web link)
Facing up to a farm in peril   (article - web link)
Eagle and kite cull   (Farming Supplement letter - .JPG file format 97.7 Kb)
Copyright © Western Mail 21/02/06

South Wales Evening Post   UK   online edition
Industry is a total scam   (letter - web link)
Perfect site for a turbine   (letter - web link)
Date set for inquiry   (article + reader's comments - web link)   20/02/06
Click here for the web link in the above reader's comment.
Wales 'missing opportunity' to change economy   (article - .JPG file format 131 Kb)
Copyright © South Wales Evening Post 21/02/06
Click here for the web link in the above article.
Support for tidal lagoon   (Editor's Opinion - .JPG file format 76.9 Kb)
Copyright © South Wales Evening Post 21/02/06

West Wales Tribune - serving Ammanford, Cross Hands, Llanelli & Carmarthen
Valley energy work is commended   (article - .JPG file format 37.9 Kb)
Copyright © West Wales Tribune, February 2006

ITV News   UK   online edition
Three degrees from disaster   (article - web link)

Forbes.com   online edition
E.ON offers 29.1 bln eur for Endesa, outbids Gas Natural   (article - web link)

Marketwatch.com   online edition
Norwegian company applies to build world's biggest wind park   (article - web link)

The Scotsman   UK   online edition
Wicker turbine set to fan flames in wind-farm dispute   (article - web link)

Renewable Energy Access   online edition
UK Offshore Wind 2006   (article - web link)

The Economic Times   India   online edition
Corruption in wind energy sector: Govt   (article - web link)

Manchester Evening News   UK   online edition
Carbon Trust in call for energy efficiency   (article - web link)

The Telegraph   UK   online edition
UK carbon map reveals effect of energy policies   (article - web link)

The New York Sun   USA   online edition
Follow the British on Energy   (article - web link)

CBS5 - Green Bay   USA   online edition
Bush touts energy initiatives while in Milwaukee   (article + video clips - web link)

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22nd February 2006

EARTHTOYS - Your Energy Resource   online edition
FPL Energy and IBERDROLA deadlocked in race for global wind farm leadership
(Press Release - web link)

South Wales Evening Post   UK   online edition
Support for tidal lagoon   (letter - web link)

The Maui News   Hawaii   online edition   21/02/06
Boy scouts spend energy touring wind farm   (article + photos - web link)

The Scotsman   UK   online edition
Fear that charging system will curb freedom of information (article - web link)
Some FoI requests going unanswered   (article - web link)
EO.N's £20bn move on Spanish utility giant lessens pressure on ScottishPower
(article - web link)
North Sea profits tax could cost 4,000 jobs and £2bn investment
(article - web link)

The Winnipeg Sun   Canada   online edition
A Windfall: Competitors join forces with proposal (article - web link)

Cape Cod Today   USA   online edition   21/02/06
Backroom deal threatens to kill Cape Wind (article - web link)

Norfolk Eastern Daily Press   UK   online edition
Wind Power?It was all huff and puff (article - web link)
Advertising Standards Agency   UK   online edition
Complaint upheld against Ecotricity Ltd (ASA Adjudication - web link)
Many thanks to Dave V. for both of the above web links.

thisismoney.co.uk
Scottish pair 'poised to tie knot' (article - web link)

South Wales Guardian   UK
Explosion fears over valleys gas pipeline   (article - .JPG file format 79.6 Kb)
Copyright © South Wales Guardian 22/02/06

Western Mail   UK   online edition
Keeping a keen eye on the tourism horizon   (article - web link)
In the above article, it is interesting to read the words of professor Dylan Jones-Evans, Co-Director of the National Entrepreneurship Observatory for Wales.... "Given the crucial importance of tourism in this region, you would have thought that the Wales Tourist Board and the Economic Development Department of the Assembly would have fully considered the impact on the tourism industry of wind farms located in this precise spot. Instead, this has been swept aside with a glib comment from the developers that there would probably be a 4% decline in tourism as a result.....
However, if such developments in key tourism locations are now acceptable, then I look forward with trepidation to the Assembly Government placing such wind farms off the coast of Tenby or the Gower, which are just as windy as the North Wales coast."

Copyright © Western Mail 22/02/06

Professor Dylan Jones-Evans  (web link)

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