Green groups funded by Big Wind

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From Bishop Hill
bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2012/4/29/green-groups-funded-by-big-wind.html

The Mail on Sunday (not online) carries the news that several prominent Scottish environmental groups are sponsored by wind farm companies.

Environment group WWF Scotland admitted that it had received more than £22,500 in the past year from one of the UK's biggest energy firms, Scottish and Southern Energy.

It has apparently also been revealed that Friends of the Earth Scotland are supported by Scottish Power Renewables, while the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Scotland is also in the pay of big wind.

Amusing therefore to see this report www.foe.co.uk/news/wind_energy_20730.html issued jointly by the three organisations saying that fears over the reliability of wind power are overdone. Money talks, I guess.... There was also this RSPB study, which found that "wind farms are not bird blenders". www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9201071/Wind-farms-are-not-bird-blenders-RSPB.html


More here on this subject forargyll.com/2012/04/major-environmental-groups-seriously-compromised-by-wind-developers-cash/

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FYI

WWF UK - Gross income £57,756,000.00
FOE Scotland - Gross income £547,994.00
RSPB UK - Gross income £122,519,000.00

Source: www.oscr.org.uk/

GWPF - Gross income £158,008.00

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It's interesting to note that the joint report from Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, WWF and RSPB entitled "Wind energy: Keeping the lights on" was written by "by energy" expert David Milborrow.

Who is "energy" expert David Milborrow you may ask?

Well he has been has been involved in the wind energy industry since 1978 and has been a director of the British Wind Energy Association (BWEA, now RenewableUK). He has been Windpower Monthly's technical consultant since 1993. So he is just the kind of independent consultant you would turn to if you wanted an unbiased report. ;<)

Apr 30, 2012 at 7:42 AM | Phillip Bratby

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The study on whether wind turbines are bird choppers expressly did not consider their effect on raptors. If one excludes the populations that are being affected then of course wind turbines have no effect on birds.

Apr 30, 2012 at 9:28 AM | ScientistForTruth

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So we pay tax to the government.
The government pay subsidies to wind farm operators.
The wind farm operators donate funds to green charities.
Green charities commission polls to inform us of what we think.

Apr 30, 2012 at 9:07 AM | Lord Beaverbrook