Auchtermuchty Landscape & Environment Group -

We are fighting to save beautiful countryside and wild places all around the world from needless industrialization. This photo was taken from the Unesco Biosphere Reserve of Braunton Burrows, North Devon, looking towards the unspoilt hills that are to become the Fullabrook Down Wind Power Station.

• So Much Wind, by Struan Stevenson MEP

  ‘This is a timely and important book, coming when more and more people are beginning to realise the folly of the SNP’s plans to make Scotland the ‘Saudi Arabia of renewables’. It analyses the human, financial and environmental cost of wind turbines and shows how misguided current policy is. This should be compulsory reading for all national and local politicians, to encourage them to stop more wind turbines being erected; either that, or voters make the choice for them’ – Martin Livermore of the Scientific Alliance‘Thought-provoking’ – Scottish FieldThe Author: Struan Stevenson  has served as a Conservative Euro MEP for Scotland since 1999....

• David Bellamy's Blog

  "Being close to and caring for the natural environment has always been close to my heart, and it has had a profound effect on my life. Whatever life throws at me it is always to the countryside that I turn to restore my health, my balance and to recharge the incredible energy I derive from just being out there. This is especially so of the mountains and wild places. It gives meaning to my paintings and keeps me in touch with reality when much of the world is in turmoil. It goes without saying that when such places are threatened...

• We need a welcome not a Wind Farm

  Llanllwni Mountain Choir

• Batsworthy Cross near Exmoor

   No local community could have fought harder to stop the Batsworthy Cross Wind farm - so much for the government's talk of Localism. Virtually the only supporters the Wind Farm had were a few members of the North Devon Green Party (mostly from 20 or 30 miles away) and this is how their Party was rewarded for its support of the Wind Farm in the recent South Molton Rural Council Election results (this is the area that includes Batsworthy Cross)L'Anne Knight (Green Party, Rule Six Party supporting the Wind Farm at the Public Inquiry) 90 votes.J. Yabsley (Conservative who voted...

• Important Meeting for all who care about rural Devon

  Dartmoor from North Tawton - this wonderful view is still threatened by nine giant wind turbines.Here is a message from Muriel Goodman and Mike Hulme of the Den Brook Judicial Review Group"You may already be aware that a fresh planning application was submitted April 19 to West Devon Borough Council (WDBC) by developers RES regarding the Den Brook...