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For and Against Wind Farms

This seventeen-minute video features first-hand accounts from people living near wind farms and experts in the field energy and the environment.
VWEC provides information relevant to large, utility-scale wind as well as smaller residential, commercial and agricultural applications of wind energy in Virginia. VWEC also provides a forum for collaboration among stakeholders and organizations interested in promoting wind energy in Virginia.
The official website from the Cape Wind offshore windfarm developers.
Yes2Wind provides extensive information about wind power, myths and facts, as well as tools to enable you to support and promote this renewable source of energy in your area.
Embrace the Revolution is giving a voice to the silent majority who support wind energy. If you're in favour of wind energy, it's time to show your support: Embrace the Revolution!
International movement of concerned artists.
Stop Ill Wind seeks to illuminate problems associated with the windpower industry and suggest means for correcting them. If windpower is to have a meaningful role in helping society achieve more beneficial, healthful means of producing electricity, its corporate agents and supporters must act responsibly and be held accountable when they do not.
Protect the Flint Hills is a website devoted to saving the last remaining expanse of Tallgrass Prairie on the North American continent from the destruction caused by wind turbines.
The Alliance supports wind power as an energy source, and promotes many forms of renewables. However, we oppose the proposed wind power plant in Nantucket Sound due to potential adverse economic and environmental impacts, as well as the lack of an appropriate review and permitting process and the absence of federal guidelines for offshore wind energy development.
Stopping Cape Wind's cape spin. Nantucket Sound wind farm project.
Affiliated groups and individuals for education and advocacy regarding the impact of industrial wind power on the economics, natural resources, and health of Vermont.
The Glebe Mountain Group was formed to protect our 2500 ridge line from industrial development. A 3.7 mile electric generation plant has been proposed for the ridge line. ..
Industrial wind power proposal for Highland County, Virginia, and information on existing installations.
Citizens Opposing Windturbines is a concerned group of citizens which was formed to protect the health, safety, and well being of all citizens in regards to the Twin Creeks Wind Farm, which Navitas Energy is planning to construct in the Towns of Two Creeks, Mishicot and Two Rivers, in Manitowoc County Wisconsin.
Cefn Croes wind farm: official website of the Campaign, fighting to save the wild hills of Wales from wind power stations.
SOBER is a voluntary group of people whose aim is to protect the landscape and wildlife of the Oswestry and Welsh Borderlands from insensitively sited wind-driven power stations.
Summary of the long fight to save Barningham High Moor. eBook available online for free: Force 10 Companion Guide
Detailed issues and actions to be taken concerning proposed wind farms on Dunion Hill, Scottish Borders.
PEPA was formed by residents of Penicuik, Carlops and Howgate communities to protect Auchencorth Moss near Penicuik from E.ON's proposal to build 18 (now 14) x 2.5 MW wind turbines.
Read on to find out why we believe that the Scottish Executives current policy of unlimited consents for wind power stations across Scotland is fatally flawed, will never be the answer to climate change issues, cannot fulfill the national energy supply requirements expected of it and inflicts an extensive and unjustifiable environmental cost.
The aim of SWAG is to stop any windfarm development on Skye and where possible help to stop any windfarm developments in Scotland.
We have developed this website as a way of providing an alternative source of information about the wind plant that EHN (Oceania) Pty Ltd is proposing to build on the Molonglo Ridges near Queanbeyan, NSW. We are not opposed to renewable energy research and development "“ we oppose this particular proposal because it is in the wrong place. Too close to homes, too close to wildlife habitat, and too close to water catchment areas.
Windmills equal to 40 floors building in the open country equal to 2 millions pounds of concrete buried for ever!!
A guide to wind energy, wind energy development, technology and issues, photos, maps, and links.
A charity dedicated to the protection of rural England.
The available evidence suggests that appropriately positioned wind farms do not pose a significant hazard for birds. However, evidence from the US and Spain confirms that poorly sited wind farms can cause severe problems for birds, through disturbance, habitat loss/damage or collision with turbines.
REF encourages the development of renewable energy and energy conservation whilst safeguarding the landscapes of the United Kingdom from unsustainable industrialization. In pursuit of this goal, REF highlights the need for an overall energy policy that is balanced, ecologically sensitive and effective.