Name: Catharine M. Lawton
From:  West Bend, Wisconsin USA
It is so nice to see citizen groups from around the world vigorously fighting the tyrant wind companies. We too, are fighting. FPL Energy a subsidiary of FPL Group (aka Florida Power and Light) has proposed to locate 33 turbines on a scenic ridge of regional significance in southeastern Wisconsin, and in the vicinity of approx. 800 homes. We have been fighting our war for about 1 year now. Please visit our website at www.misplacedwindpower.com  Thank you and keep on with the fight!. CML

Name: J. Paulusma
From:  Friesland
It is good to fight against those people who seems to have no other interest than to earn money whatever it costs. And to offer a complete landscape and a peaceful place to live in. We have the same problems in the Netherlands and we are still fighting for many years against those people and hope to win this battle. I wish you all the luck in the world and come to visit us at Summer 2000. With kind regards,
Jan Paulusma

Name: Tim Wheeler
From: Wellington
It is great to have a quite and unspoiled area so close to a large city. To allow these areas to be commercialized will slowly reduce quality of life we enjoy in New Zealand. If we let this happen once, surely with time all our natural areas will be taken from us. I want my children to enjoy life as I have.

Name: David Brown
From: Ark Hill, Glamis, Scotland
“All too familiar”

Name: Hans Schweizer
From: Germany, Baden, Ettlingen
Windfarms will destroy the unique Black Forest Mountain; we have to co-operate!!

Name: Vibeke Nielsen
From: Denmark
I am a member of your Danish counterpart, the Landsforeningen Naboer til Vindmoeller.We are trying to reorganise our homepage and I was just
wondering how your organisation was getting on.  The Landsforeningen Naboer til Vindmoeller is considering starting a worldwide cooperation between resistance organisations in the field of wind turbines and would like to use this opportunity to launching the idea to you.
Please let us have your opinion.

Name: John Brewster
From: Scotland
“Keep fighting”

Name: Lawrence Gornall
From: England
I am a student of environmental management at Lancaster University, we have much wind farm project opposition, especially around the Lake District National Park.  I am gathering ideas to aid a presentation at a public enquiry in opposition to a new project. Thanks!

Name: Steve Lainson
From: Cumbria, England
Good luck with your campaign.  We at MAIWAG (Marton, Askam & Ireleth Windfarm Action Group) are suffering the effects of a windfarm here in Cumbria. They are noisey blots on the landscape that produce little else but noise.  Sadly most people are unaware just how useless at generating electricity they really are! Keep up the good work.
web site: 

Name: Vic Maranian
From: England
I am currently looking into the effects of windfarms on television reception and would appreciate any information with regards to this subject. As far as I can glean interference is a problem. I would be glad to share my information and talk about our fight.

Name: David Thorpe
From: Scotland
I wish you every success in your battle against Big Business and these monstrous and unnecessary blots on your landscape.  They’ll be noisy, they’ll be ugly, they will themselves be a gross environmental pollutant, and they won’t even produce much electricity.

Name: John Newell
From: Auckland, New Zealand
I wholeheartedly support the arguments against the current proposed sites of wind turbines. A major contribution to New Zealand’s wealth is from tourism, we should protect this resource, wind turbines are very obtrusive and would do nothing for tourism.

Name: Nicholas C R Jackson
From: U.K.
With you all the way! We have our problems also.  Thinking of emigrating to your country! Where I live, we are faced with over 109 turbines between 75 and 95m tall.

Name: Wilfried Heck
From: Germany
See my web site for support.

Name: Campbell
From: Scotland
Congratulations on your opposition to the scourge of wind power in your wonderful country.  We are in the same business here, but its uphill, as there is so much government backing for this bogus green saviour.  I understand that ECNZ has backed off, so you should be very pleased with this result. regards, John

Name: Julia White
From: Wellington
Well written article. Next protest meeting, please let me know, just live over the hill in South Karori Road.
Regards, Julia.

Name: Ruth Paul
From: Makara, Wellington
Good work - keep it up.

Name: D King
From: Karori, Wellington
Love to cycle through Makara. Its so peaceful and the people so friendly. How can ECNZ/Meridian advertise on TV to get us to use more electricity and then force power stations on a small community under the guise of being “green”?

Name: M Ryan
From: Makara, Wellington
ECNZ/Meridian has no idea what they are dealing with here, why wreck a peaceful countyside.  If they really need the wind power we have done without before, put them somewhere else where no one can see or hear them and the public are happy.  ECNZ/Meridian would not have to look and hear them every day, we would. Lets move them.

Name: Steve
From: Makara, Wellington
Down with the proposed “anti-green” wind power station.  Let the grass grow green and long, we know whats good for the environment and it certainly isn’t ECNZ/Meridian.

Name: Murray Chisholm
From: Newlands, Wellington
Keep the turbines away from our coastlines and recreation areas.  Move them inland to areas that have low populations and where the local residents actually want them.  I believe that they could be a good clean option for producing electricity but not at the expense of people already living there.  If I lived by the sea I would expect to hear the soothing sound of waves on the shore ( a sound I have always enjoyed since childhood )
not a continuous and monotonous............WOOOMP........WOOOMP.............WOOOMP.........

Name: Zeb
From: Makara
I LOVE MAKARA AND I DO NOT WANT IT SPOILT.  KEEP UP THE GOOD
WORK.

Name: P Shearer
From: Makara, Wellington
Wind turbines should be sited in appropriate places.  Makara is not such a place!

Name: David Johnson
From: 176 Ohiro Bay Parade Wellington
Makara is a very nice and peaceful place.  It would be a shame to spoil that peace with the continuous sound of wind turbines.  There are plenty of better locations rather than spoiling a recreation area such as Makara.

Name: Lotta Nilsson
From: Sweden
I left my home in January. I could not cope with the noise from a wind turbine located 650m from my home. Now I am getting another turbine near my new home. Can you help?

Name: Hiltje Zwaarberg
From: Holland
We have problems  with windmills.  We don’t want them in our nature areas and not near villages or near people.  The rendement is bad, they are dangerous, they make a lot of noise and they disturb our beautiful country’s. I have made a link on my page. My page is in Dutch, but there are a lot
of people in your country that can read it and maybe translate it. Maybe we can’t help you directly but we can make it clear that in this world there are more and more people in oppositon against these monsters. I have a lot of contact also to our neighbours in Germany and they provide me with a lot of information about incidents with windmills.  In Holland the opposition is increasing so there is hope.
My page is on
http://home.wxs.nl/~hzwarber/wind/welkom.html
If there is anything we can offer you please give an e-mail.

Name: Angela Kelly
From: U.K.
I totally agree with you. Wind farms are a great threat to the countryside, especially to upland areas. You have my full support. See our web site at:
www.countryguardian.net
 
 

From:  Angela Kelly
Chairman Country Guardian.

Re: NEW WEBSITE ADDRESS:
www.countryguardian.net
--------------------------------------------------
BWEA took the trouble to hi-jack our website by registering the domain name: www.countryguardian.co.uk    and only removed their link with it when the national press ran an article exposing their activities.  BWEA said in the newspaper article that they would be happy to sell the said domain name to our organization at a commercial rate!  Luckily some Oxford University students informed me that they had been getting BWEA website whenever they put in a search for Country Guardian (see  correspondence below). I know little about the internet so asked an expert if this was acceptable behaviour. He said quite
definitely not but those who indulged in such activities were known as “the scumbags of cyberspace”!!
I have now registered:-  www.countryguardian.net  to make sure that “searches” find  our website and not that of the BWEA!
Country Guardian’s old domain name: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/windfarms has been dropped altogether.
 

From: Tairgwaith action group

Makara Guardians
We're so happy that this site is up and running again after a fantastic facelift!! Why anyone would want to spoil the pristine New Zealand landscape with a peppering of turbines is beyond belief! Check out this site for informative insight into the issues."

Elizabeth Mann
Co Durham
England

My website is dedicated to my husband Stanley who did so much to protect the countryside he loved.
It is the story of the long but successful fight to protect our local area from the damaging development of wind turbines.
I hope it encourages you to continue to fight for the greatest gift you can leave to your children, a beautiful and tranquil countryside.

The battle was taken to the High Court and won.

The info  is now available in an A5 BOOKLET
COST £1 + postage from
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THANK YOU

ELIZABETH

Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound

Please feel free to link to our web site, www.saveoursound.org. We are all in this fight together and we have linked to your web site on our "Worldwide Opposition' page at http://www.saveoursound.org/moreoffshore.html
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