Hard to think it’s only been a Year since we took the fight to Canberra. On 18 June 2013, 364 pro-farming and pro-rural community representatives – from Tolga in Far North Queensland, Coopers Gap in Southern QLD; from all over the Tablelands of NSW; a big contingent of Victorians and South Australians; and a contingent from the Golden West – descended on the Nation’s Capital to highlight the scale and scope of the Great Wind Power Fraud (see our post here).
For those who made the long journey, here’s a video reminder of what a great and important day that was.
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In that short 12 months, the game has changed (irreversibly) for the better.
The mandatory RET – upon which the whole stinking rort depends – is almost dead and buried; no retailer or bank has been prepared to sign any deal (PPA or loan) with with wind power outfits since December 2012; our favourite whipping boys, Infigen are on the brink of insolvency; and the Coalition is about to announce the details of their multidisciplinary health inquiry – which will finally investigate the impacts of turbine noise on the sleep and health of long-suffering wind farm neighbours.
That inquiry will rival the work of Neil Kelley & Co from the 1980s for the range of disciplines from which highly skilled (and relevantly qualified) experts will be drawn (which rules out former tobacco advertising gurus); and – to the relief of everyone (except the wind industry and its parasites) – STT hears that the NRMRC will have nothing to do with the work or the selection of experts – which will all be controlled from the Health Minister’s office.
In the meantime, “something” has, indeed, been “happening” – but not just “here” – it’s been happening all over the world. To give you some idea of what that “something” is, we’ve reproduced an enormous list of anti-wind power fraud groups compiled by Quixote’s Last Stand – over 2,000 in all.
So, next time you think you or your little group are battling the Dark Forces all on your lonesome, haul out this list and remind yourselves that you are part of something that is much, MUCH bigger than you could have dreamed of even 12 months ago. And don’t just skim the list, check out the comments and replies at the end: you’re all very much part of a global movement for the betterment of all.
At this point, we’ll hand over to Donna Quixote – and say “hats off Donna”!:
Below is a partial list (2,194 and counting) of worldwide anti-wind organizations. Not all groups have a website, some simply have a contact name which is included in parentheses. For those that do have a website, I’ve included a link to it. Each website has been double-checked to make sure it is active, before it is listed here.
I will keep adding groups as I find them and have the time to list them.
Some groups are listed in their national language and I’ve provided a rough translation of each one’s site banner.
Facebook Groups are listed separately at the bottom of the page. So if you don’t see your group listed under the country title, check the FB websites at the bottom.
There are also some excellent resource sites after all of the anti-wind groups. Thanks to EPAW for many of the European groups listed here.
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NORTH AMERICA (266)
CANADA (87)
Ontario (76)
Alliance for the Protection of Northumberland Hills
Alliance to Protect Prince Edward County
Amherst Island Wind Information
Blowing Our Tax Dollars on Wind Farms
Bluewater Against Turbines (BAT)
Beckwith Responsible Wind Action Group
Blue Highlands Citizens Coalition
Bruce Peninsula Wind Action Group
Cavan Monaghan Wind Watch — Profits Over People
Central Huron Against Turbines
Chatham-Kent Wind Action Group
Coalition to Protect Amherst Island
Concerned Citizens of Cavan Monaghan
Conservation of Rural Enniskillen
County Coaltiion for Safe and Appropriate Green Energy
Dawn Euphemia Sydenham Wind Action Group
Dutton/Dunwich Opponents of Wind Turbines
East Oxford Community Alliance (Norwich, ON)
Elma-Mornington Concerned Citizens
Gone With The Wind — Property Loss due to Wind Turbines
Global Wind Energy — The Human Impact
Grey Highlands Wind Action Group
Lake Superior Action-Research-Conservation
Manitoulin Coalition for Safe Energy Alternatives
Manvers Wind Concerns Kawartha
My Next Door Neighbour is a Wind Turbine
Nor’Wester Mountain Escarpment Protection Committee
Nurses for Safe Renewable Power
Oppose Belwood Wind Farm Association
Preserve Clearview (Stayner, ON)
Association to Protect Amherst Island
Smithville Turbine Opposition Party
South Branch Wind Opposition Group
STORM Coalition (Save the Oak Ridges Moraine)
The Human Face of Wind Turbines
West and East Perth Against Turbines
West Grey Residents Against Industrial Turbines (WeGRAIT)
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Quebec
Saskatchewan
UNITED STATES (182)
Health Care Professionals Against Commercial Wind in the Appalachian Mountains
Alabama
Arizona
Alliance for Responsibility in the Environment of Northern Arizona
California
Connecticut
Florida
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Advocates for Responsible Energy Development
Indiana
Concerned Property Owners of Marshall County
Greentown Citizens for Safe Energy
Responsible Siting in Tippecanoe County (RESITE)
Kansas
Kentucky
Citizens Voice of Mason County
Maine
Citizens’ Task Force on Wind Power
Forest Ecology Network (Campaign to Stop Industrial Wind)
Friends of the Boundary Mountains
Friends of the Highland Mountains
Partnership for the Preservation of the Downeast Lakes Watershed
Maryland
Massachusetts
Save Our Sound – Preserve Nantucket
Michigan
Interstate Informed Citizens Coalition
Lake Michigan P.O.W.E.R. Coalition
Minnesota
Missouri
Montana
Nevada
New Hampshire
Informational Site for the Antrim Wind Energy Wind Turbine Installation
New Jersey
Hazlet Area Quality of Life Alliance (no website)
New Mexico
New York
Citizens for a Healthy Rural Neighborhood
Coalition for the Preservation of the Golden Crescent and 1000 Islands Region
Concerned Citizens for Cattaraugus County
Concerned Citizens for Sustainable Energy
Concerned Residents of Hammond
Naples Valley Bristol Hills Association
Prattsburgh/Italy Wind Turbine Information
Save Jones Beach Ad Hoc Committee
Springwater Preservation Committee
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Auglaize Neighbors United to Preserve and Protect Auglaize County
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Folmont Property Owners Association
Rhode Island
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Citizens for the Preservation of Georgia Mountain
Industrial Wind Energy Opposition
IRA Wind (Collection of anti-videos)
Virginia
Mountain Preservation Association – No Wind Turbines!
West Virginia
Friends of Beautiful Pendleton County
Highlanders for Responsible Development
Wisconsin
Brown County Citizens for Responsible Wind Energy
Coalition for Wisconsin Environmental Stewardship (CWESt)
Wyoming
Northern Laramie Range Alliance
Puerto Rico
Coalición Pro Bosque Seco Ventanas Verraco
MEXICO
EUROPE (1596)
European Platform Against Wind 570 anti-wind organizations from 24 European countries
National Association for Neighbours Of Giant Windmills Comprised of 182 Anti-turbine groups — People must not be used as test animals. Until we have been reassured about the health risks associated with living next door to wind turbines, they must be postponed.
United Kingdom (415)
National Opposition to Windfarms
REF (Renewable Energy Foundation)
Slay the Array – “Alliance against the Monster”
England (108)
Action Against Matlock Moor Wind Farm (AMP)
Acton Bridge Windfarm Campaign
Anglesey Against Wind Turbines
Against Subsidised Wind Farms Around Rugby
Alliance of British Drivers Wind Power
Belvoir Locals Oppose Turbines (BLOT)
Billingborough & Horbling Against Turbines
Birdsedge, West Yorkshire – Opposition to Large Turbines
Bleakhouse Wind Farm Action Group
BOLT — Birdsedge Opposition to Large Turbines
Bozeat and Lavendon Oppose Turbines (BLOT)
Bradwell and Tillingham Tackling Lost Environment (BATTLE)
Burton Against Turbines (BATS)
Campaign to Limit Onshore Windfarm Developments (CLOWD)
Communities Against Reagill and Sleagill Turbines
Copmanthorpe Wind Farm Action (CWFAG)
Denbrook Valley Windfarm Coalition
Dunsland Turbines Opposition Group
Feldon Residents Against Wind Turbines (FRAWT)
Fenland Landscape Against Turbines
Friends of Eden, Lakeland and Lunesdale Scenery
Friends of Ripon Environment and Heritage (FREH)
Friends of Rural Cumbria’s Environment (FORCE)
Householders Against Rushy Mead (HARM)
Marr and Melton Wood Action Group
Montgomeryshire Against Pylons
National Association Against Wind Turbines (NAAWT)
No Triton Knoll Substation (Triton Knoll Windfarm)
NO Windfarm at Yelvertoft (NoWAY)
North Hambleton Wind Farm Action Group
Penicuik Environment Protection Association
Protect Sheephouse Heights Action Group
Protect Little Hoole and Midge Hall near Leyland
Residents Against Turbines (RATS)
reVOLT – “Rural economies and voters oppose Loveden Turbines”
Saddleworth Moor Action Group (No turbines in Saddleworth)
Save Mair Hills Protection Group
Save Our Scenery — Our Heritage Coastline
Say No to Harrington Wind Farm
Shuckburgh Park Windfarm Action Group (SPWAG)
Sibsey Turbine On-shore Protest (STOP)
South Hams Opposing Commercial Turbines (SHOCT)
South Pennine Landscape Action
South Tendring Acting To Protect our Local Environment (STAPLE)
STILE — Stop Turbines in Lunesdale Environment
Stone and Trent Save our Valley
Stonewall Hill Conservation Action Group
Stop Dorcas Lane Turbines Awareness Group
Stop Haversham Wind Farm Action Group
Stop Industrial Turbines Devon
Stop Litlington Wind Farm Action Group
Stop Molesworth Wind Farm Action Group
Stop Shepham Wind Farm Action Group
Stop the Rampion Off-Shore Windfarm
Stop the Turbines at Asfordby and Oppose Peel
Stop Turbine Onshore Proliferation in Torridge (STOPIT Meddon)
Stop Turbines over Clare (STOC)
The Isles Communities Turbine Action Campaign
The Wight Against Rural Wind Turbines (THWART)
Thornton Moor Windfarm Action Group
Todmorden Moor Restoration Trust
Tolpuddle Against Industrial Turbines
Tramwell Windfarm Action Group (TWAG)
Windwatch — West Tyrone Against Wind Turbines
Wingrave, Rowsham and Hulcott against the Wind Power Station (WRHAPS)
Scotland (62)
ABO – WE SAY NO- No Wind Farm in Kilmorack and Strathglass
Against Newlands Wind Farm Action Group
Almont/Breaker Hill Windfarm Action Group
Amulree & Strathbraan Windfarm Action Group
Auchtermuchty Landscape & Environment Group
Barras, Arbuthnott, Catterline, Kinneff Windfarm Action Group
Blackstairs Conservation Concern
Caithness Windfarm Information
Carnwath Act Now – “Many communities, one voice”
Cerres and District Environment and Amenity Protection
Clatto Landscape Protection Group
Communities Against Turbines Scotland
Dunion Hill Conservation Group
Fifeplan Lochgelly — “Freedom from Wind Farms”
Galloway Landscape And Renewable Energy (GLARE)
Marnoch and Deveron Valley Protection Group
No 2 Black Isle Wind Farm – “Possibly the Worst Place in Scotland to put a Wind Farm”
No More Wind Farms – (new group as of August 2013 — no known website yet)
Penicuik Environment Protection Association (PEPA)
People Against Clachan Turbines
Protect Against Wind — “Radical new Anti-windfarm Alliance”
Protest Against SNP Wind Policy
Save Our Unspoilt Countryside (SOUL)
Save The Monadhliath Mountains
Say NO to Airriequhillart Wind Farm
Scotland Against Spin — National wind group
Scotland Against Wind Farms (Protect Wild Scotland)
Shotteswell, Hanwell & Mollington Wind Farm Action Group (SHAMWAG)
Southwest WindFarm Action Group
Spittal Windfarm Opposition Group (SWOG)
Standingfauld Environmental Action Group (SEAG)
Stop Highland Windfarms Campaign
Stop Proliferation of Turbines (SPOT)
Stop Turbines On Peninsula (SToP)
Sutherland Campaign for Action to Protect Our Environment (Landscape)
Tunstall Hills Protection Group
Visit Scotland — Wind Farms (different site from one above)
Ireland (212)
*** as of January 2014 a coalition of over 200 anti-wind groups in Ireland has formed to fight against wind energy in this country. As yet unnamed, I will put up the information as soon as it’s available. Link to article here…..
Blackstairs Conservation Concern
CREWE — “Communities for Responsible Engagement with Wind Energy”
Connemara Coastline Against Windfarms
Glenties Windfarm Information Group
Gweebarra Conservation Group — Donegal County
Legan and Ballycloghan Wind Turbine Awareness Group (new group in its infancy .. no website yet)
Wales (21)
Campaign for Protection of Rural Wales
Clocaenog Against Wind Turbines
Five Roads Residents Against Wind Turbines
Scandinavia (248)
Denmark (215)
National Association of Neighbors Fighting Wind Turbines — comprised of 200 associations of smaller anti-wind farm groups formed across Denmark
Alliancen mod kæmpevindmøller ved Kostervig
BEVAR HORISONTEN OG VORES KYSTNÆRE MILJØ
Foreningen til Lammefjordens Beskyttelse
Preserve Our Coastal Environment
Vinddebat – borgere mod vindmøller i Kærende
Vi siger nej – “We say no to the giant wind turbines”
Norway
Sweden (33)
Föreningen Svenskt Landskapsskydd — FSL
Algustorpgruppen Röke mot felplacerad vindkraft
Föreningen bevara Linderödsåsen
Föreningen för ansvarsfull vindkraft i Lilla Edet
Föreningen Svenskt Landskapsskydd
Föreningen Tjörns landskapsskydd
Köpinge-Glemminge Natur- och Livsmiljö
Livskvalité Runt Öregrundsgrepen
Livskvalité och boendemiljö i Svalövs kommun, LOBIS
Samrådsgruppen västra Tjörnkusten
Svartnäsbygdens Vildmarksförening
Wittsjöbygden mot vindkraftsutbyggnad
Austria (6)
Bündnis fordert Überarbeitung der BI Web-Seite
Bürgerinitiative “Freunde des Dunkelsteinerwalds”
Initiative gegen Windpark Ladendorf-Neubau
Weinviertler Plattform Waldschutz
Belgium (14)
Geen 150m hoge windturbines op 250m van onze Kalkense deur
Geen 150m hoge windturbines vlakbij onze huizen in Peizegem en het
Groupe d’information sur les éoliennes
Les Éoliennes de la Plaine de Boneffe
Bulgaria
Crete
ΠΑΓΚΡΗΤΙΟ ΔΙΚΤΥΟ ΑΓΩΝΑ ΚΑΤΑ ΒΙΟΜΗΧΑΝΙΚΩΝ ΑΠΕ
Pan Cretan Net against Industrial Wind RSE (Click here to go to international petition to save Crete from wind turbines)
Czech Republic (18)
Dejmalka o.s.– Regional association, Kraj Vysočina
Naše Výprachtice, občanské sdružen
Na Skále Radošice o.s. — Civic Association
Naše Výprachtice, občanské sdružení
Os Babáky – Babákov v Holetíně – ChrudimskoStop-větrníkům
Toužimský antivĕtrník, občanské sdružení — Civic Association
Unie pro krajinu – Group of organisations and individuals
France (81)
Fédération Environnement Durable – “803 Associations to stop unnecessary wind programs and devastation”
44info (Member of the Fédération Environnement Nationale –FED)
ABDV – A Bout De Vents (FED)
ADERE – Association de Défense de l’Environnement de la Région d’Egreville (FED)
ADEVA — l’association ADEVA de Villebéon (FED)
ADTC – Avis de Tempête Cévenole
AGAPE (FED)
APECB (FED)
ARBRE (FED)
Association Avenir et Patrimoine 88 (FED)
Association Coûp de Vent (FED)
association CHAVAGNES AUTHENTIQUE (FED)
Association DCA, Defense de la Cote D’albatre (FED)
Association de Défense de l’Environnement de la Région d’Egreville (FED)
Association de Défense de l’Environnement en Nord Lauragais
Association “Défense de l’Environnement dans le département des Vosges” (FED)
Association de Sauvegarde des Paysages et du Patrimoine en Haut-Limousin
Association de Défense des Droits et des Intérêts des Citoyens Crosvillais (FED)
Association de Sauvegarde des Paysages et du Patrimoine en Haut-Limousin (FED)
Association Développement Durable du Bayonnais du Saintois et de la Lorraine (FED)
Association Gâtinaise pour le Patrimoine et l’Environnement (FED)
Association Pour Agir Groupés (FED)
Association Pour la Défense et le Développement du Haut Nivernais (FED)
Association pour la Sauvegarde et la Protection du Patrimoine 88 (FED)
Association pour la Sauvegarde et le Développement du Patrimoine de Pargues et de ses Environs (FED)
Association vent d’anjou (FED)
Association vigilance éoliennes de la Pévèle (FED)
AVIETOB (FED)
Bosq le Hard (FED)
Bourbon’air (FED)
CCK et Vent d’Est Pluvignois (FED)
Château de Bourgon (FED)
Collectif Agir pour le Lévezou (FED)
Collectif Allier Citoyen (FED)
Collectif 6 Octobre – “Contre l’eolien industriel”
Collectif PULSE Pour Un Littoral Sans EolienneCollective Pulse for a Coastline without Wind – “Stop offshore wind turbines along the coast: at sea and coastal region”
Comité des Barthes — “Les victimes de l’eolien” (FED)
Contre-Vents sur Dixmont et Les Bordes
corbieresmaritimes (FED)
Défense de l’Environnement dans le département des Vosges (FED)
Du vent les €oliennes ! ( FED)
Eolien-cathare (FED)
eolesocial (FED)
Eoliennes en Vendee Longeville sur Mer-Le Bernard
Force dedefense des ayantsdroits de sections de commune (AFASC) (FED)
L’A.V.E.P. (Association Vigilance Eoliennes de la Pévèle) (FED)
La haye d’ectot sans éoliennes (FED)
Les Ventilacteurs (FED)
Le ven tourne (FED)
Librevent -”Industrial, economic and political interests continue to prevail over the health of our citizens”
L’r2rien (FED)
Menace d’un projet éolien visible du château de Bourgon
National Academy of Medicine (Report on the impact of wind turbines on human health)
Oise-dans-le-Vent (FED)
Picardie.stop.eolien (FED)
Pivoine (FED)
Projet Eoliennes entre Auchy, Vermelles, Hulluch et Haisnes
Protection de l’Environement du Pays de Retz (FED)
Protection des sommets du haut doubs (FED)
PULSE – Pour Un Littoral Sans Eolienne
S.O.S. Mont-Saint-Michel (FED)
STOP au Projet des Deux Plaines
Suivi Eolien Verite (FED) – “The highest performance to counter industrial wind in France”
Union Bellîloise pour l’Environnement et le développement
VDC sur PC – Vent de colère sur le plateau du Petit-Caux
Vent debout! (FED)
Vent de Colère (FED)
Vent de Liberté Haute-Vienne (FED)
Ventderaison (FED)
Ventdubocage (FED)
Vent Libre Sur Nos Collines (FED)
Ventsdauvergne (FED)
Vigi-eole (FED) “Promote renewable energy – Fight against Industrial Wind — Preserve our village”
Voisine D’eoliennes Industrielles Near the Wind Farms (A journal from a lover of nature and the silence)
Germany (742)
According to this article in the German newspaper Spiegel, there are over 700 anti-wind groups across Germany. Since I’m unable to list all of them, I’ve posted just a partial listing.
This site Windkraftgegner (Independent portal for organisations, community groups and private individuals in Germany, which in general speak against wind power)is a site that lists just some of the anti-wind turbine organizations in Germany. On Windkraftgegner, you will find links to 87 different anti-wind groups. I’ve listed just a few of them below, along with translations of their headlines.
Aktion Gegenwind Allgäu (rolf.walter@web.de)
Allgäuer Bürgerinitiative gegen die Windkraft (bertimanfred@t-online.de)
Anliegerinitiative Jeversen gegen Windkraftanlagen (txandi@web.de)
Arbeitsgemeinschaft für eine windradfreie Heimat (windradfreie.heimat@cw-net.de)
Bergeraktion Gegenwind Stiftland (Citizen’s initiative for the promotion of nature conservation and landscape management by preventing the construction of wind turbines)
Bundesverband Landschaftsschutz
Bündnis fordert Überarbeitung der BI Web-Seite
Bürger gegen den Windenergiepark Schulendorf
Bürgerinitiative Adelberg (rjdd@ymail.com)
Bürgerinitiative Garßen (horstreichel@gmx.de)
Bürgerinitiative gegen ein Windfeld Wolfsmoor
Bürgerinitiative Gegenwindheide
Bürgerinitiative Gegenwind Golzow (wneumannbuerogmm@aol.com)
Bürgerinitiative GegenWind Hartenstein
Bürgerinitiative Gegenwind Husarenhof
Bürgerinitiative Gegenwind-Jurahöhe
Bürgerinitiative Gegenwind – Keine WKA zwischen Ingersheim und Husarenhof
Bürgerinitiative gegen Windkraft in Schülldorf (hans.u.schroeder@t-online.de)
Bürgerinitiative gegen Windkraft (klein.runkel@t-online.de)
Bürgerinitiative Goldebek / Goldelund (moinmointhomsen@vr-web.de)
Bürgerinitiative Hardebek (windmueller.gegenwind@web.de)
Bürgerinitiative Höhendörfer (petra.dahms@inter.jet)
Bürgerinitiative Landschaftsschutz Aller-Oker-Aue
Bürgerinitiative “Lebenswertes Langenhorn
Bürgerinitiative Naturpark statt Windpark
Bürgerinitiative Nauener Platte e.V. (happe@schoenduwe.de)
Bürgerinitiative Ockholm (buergerinitiative.ockholm@googlemail.com)
Bürgerinitiative proWald Niedernhausen
Bürgerinitiative “Rettet den Hungerberg” (r-benoist@t-online.de)
Bürgerinitiative Rheinhessen-Pfalz
Bürgerinitiative zum Schutz des Hochschwarzwaldes
Bürgerinitiative Stahnsdorf Süd
Bürgerinitiative, Schleswig-Holstein
Bürgerinitiative “Unser Wald” gegen den Windpark Odelzhausen/Brugger
Bürgerinitiative Windkraft im Spessart
Bürgerinitiative “Windpark Lange Heide Heilshorn” (The residents of the villages are threatened by significant * Attacks on their health * Withdrawal of their economic livelihoods * Destruction of their environment. The extent of the looming dangers of thousands residents breaks all negative records on political immorality and inhumanity in our Republic. The dance of lowly profiteers to the golden calf has begun here.)
Bürgerinitiative zum Schutz des Hochschwarzwaldes e. V.
Bürgerinitiative zum Schutz des Naturparks Frankenwald (hans.jungkunz@t-online.de)
Bürgernetzwerk Energiewende Niedersachsen-Hessen
Dorferneuerung Bieswang & Ochsenhart
Dorfgemeinschaft Winterschneidbach
Ein Dorf kämpft gegen Windriesen
Erneuerbare Energien Gesetz: Ziel verfehlt – aber Umverteilung des Geldes von unten nach oben
Europäisches Institut für Klima und Energie
Förderkreis der Demokratischen Gesellschaft Rhein/Neckar e.V. (mathiaswagener@t-online.de)
Für Mensch und Natur – Gegenwind Schleswig-Holstein
Gegenwind Bälau (joachim.Sander@findus-reitsport.de)
GegenWind Engelschoff (Gegenwind — Against Wind)
Gegen-Wind Fargau-Pratjau (gegen-wind-fargau-pratjau@web.de)
Gegenwind – für eine industriefreie Nordsee
Gegenwind in Krukow – Bürgerinitiative für Mensch und Umwelt (BD.Wieck@googlemail.com)
Gegenwind Neuendorf-Sachsenbande
Gegenwind Oldenborstel (utiemann@t-online.de)
Gegenwind Rüthnick / Herzberg (Haase40@gmx.de)
Gegenwind Vogelsberg (For the protection of the oldest nature park in Germany)
Gegenwind Vogelsberg – Stehen Sie Auf
Gegenwind Wendland (reinhild_h@freenet.de)
Gegenwind Youtube site (videos are in German)
IG Breinermoor/Backemoor (IGBB@gmx.de)
IG „Gegen Repowering – Auf der Scheid (gross.christof@web.de)
IG gegen Windpark Drült (windpark-druelt@oersberg.de)
Initiative gegen Windkraft “Im Stenges”
Initiative Schälker Heide – Ergste
Interessengemeinsachft zur Erhaltung der Notte-Niederung
Keine Windkraft in Ebersburg und Eichenzell !
Landesverband Gegenwind Bayern – für Mensch und Natur (gegenwind.bayern@freenet.de)
Landesverband Sachsen des Bundesverbandes Landschaftsschutz
Landschaftsschutz Niedersachsen e. V.
LLS Nds – Landesverband Landschaftsschutz Niedersachsen
NAEB – Nationale Anti-EEG-Bewegung
Naturschutz paradox — Ulrich Löbert
Naturstrom- und Windkrafteuphorie in Deutschland und ihre Folgen
Oberngruber Gegenwind (edeltraud.Hoelzlein@gmx.net)
Randowkurier (Wind Turbines — It Is Enough)
Rettet die Uckermark (The circle group is committed to the protection and preservation of the landscapes in the Uckermark)
Rückenwind fürs Erlauholz e. V.
Verband für Mensch und Umwelt Saar
Verein zur Bewahrung der Kulturlandschaft Mainfranken e.V. (kulturlandschaft.mainfranken@gmx.de)
W.I.N.D. e.V. Initiative zur Wahrung intakter, natürlicher (burkhard.t@t-online.de)
Windenergie in Schmalensee (antonia.fehrenbach@t-online.de)
Windenergienutzung und Illegalität (Wind and Crime)
Windkraft: Eine Alternative, die keine ist! Verband für Gesundheits- und Landschaftsschutz
Windkraftfreies Aller-Leine-Tal (j.schmidt-winsen@t-online.de)
Windkraftgegner – Thransheide (Citizen’s initiative against the planned wind farm in the Thransheide at Walsrode)
Wind mit Vernunft (wind-mit-vernunft@gmx.net)
Windwahn (Civil rights are our motivation, nature is our energy)
Zwischen Rhein und Donnersberg (Initiative for the preservation of the native landscape and against useless wind turbines)
Greece (11)
http://vounakaieleftheria.blogspot.gr/
Citizens and friends of Kandanos and Selino
Κίνηση Πολιτών για την Προστασία του Ευρυτανικού Περιβάλλοντος
Πρωτοβουλία Πολιτών για τη Διάσωση του Πράμνειου Όρους
Network for Environmental and Cultural Protection of Laconia
Hungary
Italy (15)
Comitato Liberiamo il vento di Faeto (FG)
Comitato Nazionale contro Fotovoltaico Eolico Aree Verdi (National Coalition)
Comitato Nazionale del Paesaggio
Comitato No Eolico, vediamoci chiaro – Pro Matine Santeramo
Eolico, No Grazie, Difendiamo Il Nostro Paesaggio — Wind? No Thanks. Defend Our Landscape
Il blog di Pasquale Trivisonne dal titolo esplicativo — “Wind Energy. The Great Fraud of Wind Power”
Initiative | Iniziativa Unser Sattelberg
Mountain Wilderness — “More Wind? Thanks, that’s Enough!”
No eolico in alta valnure. ecco i perchè
No Eolico Industriale a Nicelli
Rete della Resistenza sui Crinali
Lithuania
The Netherlands (14)
Actiegroep tegen windpark weer actief – De Woudklank
Dorpsbelang Oudesluis – Werkgroep “In Oudesluis horen geen windmolens thuis”
Nationaal Kritisch Platform Windenergie (NKPW)
Platform Storm — Stop the Wind Turbines
Stichting Dalfsen tegen windmolens
Stichting Kritisch Platform Ontwikkeling de Zijpe
Stichting Platform Tegenwind N33
Wind Turbines: The Whole Truth
Poland
*Protest* Sobowidz Wiatraki Nowa Energia
Slovenia (2)
Spain (15)
ASOCIACIÓN GEOGRÁFICA AMBIENTAL
Coordinadora d´Estudis Eòlics del Comtat
Grup d’Estudi i Protecció dels Ecosistemes Catalans
GURELUR Fondo Navarro para la Protección del Medio Natural
IAEDEN – Institució alt-empordanesa per a la Defensa i Estudi de la Natura i Salvem l’Empordà
No Als Ventiladors a la Costa de L’Ametlla de Mar
PCAPIC – Plataforma Cívica Antimolins de Portbou i Colera
Plataforma El Quijote contra los Molinos
Plataforma para la Defensa de Gistreo
Plataforma para la Defensa de la Cordillera Cantábrica
Plataforma para la Defensa del Sur de Cantabria
Plataforma Per La Defensa de la Terra Alta – CATALÀ
Plataforma Per La Defensa de la Terra Alta – CASTELLÀ
Switzerland (5)
Association des Amis de Tête-de-Ran / La Vue-des-Alpes
Vent de Folie, la base de donnees – The green scam …. A kind of modern-day cancer… ‘ information and expose how ‘ deception, came here in our hands…!
ASIA
Association for Geoconservation, Hong Kong
Hong Kong Concern About Wind Power Stations
AUSTRALIA (15)
Australian Industrial Wind Turbine Awareness Network
Boorowa District Landscape Guardians
Crookwell District Landscape Guardians
Eastern Mt Lofty Ranges Landscape Guardians
Flyers Creek Wind Turbine Awareness Group
Friends of Collector
Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Spa Country Landscape Guardians
Tablelands Wind Turbine Action Group
NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand Wind Farms — A Public Policy Failure
NoTas Wind Farm Group
South Africa
Nieuwerust Nosie & Bird Watch — No-Go for Wind Turbines
Wind Point — The Truth about Wind Farms
International Groups
Artists Against Wind — Artists from across the world unite to save and celebrate our threatened landscapes
Facebook Anti-wind groups (308)
This list includes anti-wind facebook groups from around the world. Europe, North America, Australia, Puerto Rico, and more!!
Against Controversial Wind Turbines in Blackburn with Darwen (UK — 17 Members)
Against GSK turbines Montrose (UK — 18 members)
Airriequhillart Wind Farm Protest – Dumfries & Galloway (UK — 92 members)
Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound (America — 479 members)
Ardglass Wind Turbine Action Awareness Group (Ireland — 167 members)
Artists Against Wind Farms (Worldwide — 359 members)
Ballycommon in Co Offaly (Ireland)
Ballymore Industrial Wind Turbine Information Group (Ireland)
Ballynacargy in Co Westmeath (Ireland)
Ban Wind Turbines from our Countryside (UK)
Bog of Allen Communities Against Spin
Bürgerinitiative Gegenwind Schiphorst (Germany)
Bürgerinitiative Müncheberg EV (Germany)
Bürgerinitiative Windpark Schönfeld (Germany)
Bürgerinitiative Windstille (Germany)
Bürgerinitiative Zukunft Mönchberg (Germany)
Campaign to Protect Rural England (UK)
Cape Vincent Wind Sacrifice Zone
Carrickfergus Says No to Wind Turbines (UK)
Castlejordan & Ballinabracky in Co Meath (Ireland)
Citizens Voice of Mason County
Clonbullogue in Co Offaly (Ireland)
Coalicion Pro Bosque Seco (Puerto Rico)
Comeraghs Against Pylons (Ireland)
Conservation of Upland Powys (UK)
Coralstown Kinnegad (CK) Wind Information Group (Ireland)
Croghan in Co Offaly (Ireland)
Cubert And Crantock Against Wind Turbines
Eolico Santa Donna e le vere energie sostenibili (Italy)
Eon Wedonotwantyourwindfarmhere
Ernestown Wind Concern (Canada)
EVAG – Endrick Valley Action Group (UK)
Falmouth Turbine Neighbors (U.S.)
Farmers Against Rural Turbines (Australia)
F.I.G.H.T – Fight in Guisborough to Halt Turbines (UK)
Foes of Kingdom Community Wind
Fowey Landscape Action Group (UK)
Friends of Mojave (America)
Friends of Llanllwni Mountain (Wales)
Friends of Searchlight Desert and Mountains
Garryhinch Wind Energy Awareness Group (Ireland)
Gaybrook Residents Against Wind Turbines (Ireland)
Geashill in Co Offaly (Ireland)
Gegenwind Oberkrämer (Germany)
Gegen Schiessanlage Wünsdorf (Germany)
Gegenwind Deutschland (Germany)
Gegenwind-Gattendorf (Germany)
Gegenwind Schleswig-Holstein (Germany)
Gegenwind Vogelsberg (Germany)
Gegenwind Vorfläming (Germany)
Gegen Windkraft (Germany)
Great Lakes Wind Truth (Canada and U.S.)
Green Berkshires (UK)
Gründungsgruppe gegen EEG (Germany)
Gruppe mod vindmøller i Manna Kær (Scandinavia)
Gweebarra Conservation Group (Ireland)
Hamlin Preservation (America)
Hände Weg Vom Liepnitzwald (Germany)
Hankensbüttel Gegenwind (Germany)
Hoosac Wind Watch (America)
Hoosiers Against Wind farms (America)
illwind: No to Wind Turbines in Stratton and South Marston (UK — 101 members)
International Committee against Photovoltaic and Wind Power in Green Areas
Interstate Informed Citizens Coalition, Inc. – IICC
Jeddore Industrial Wind Farm Development (Canada)
Keeping Hampshire Green (America)
Killucan Raharney Rathwire Wind Information Group (Ireland)
Kimbolton Stop Bicton Wind Farm
Lakelands Windfarm Information Group (Ireland)
Landschaftsschutz Ebersberger Land e.V. (Germany)
Laois Against Wind Colonisation (UK)
Laois Wind Energy Awareness Group (UK)
Legan Wind Action Group (Ireland)
Lexington & Concord Townships — Help Protect Rural Maine
Maine Wind Concerns (America)
Manvers Wind Concerns Kawartha (Canada)
MAP (Montgomeryshire Against Pylons) (UK)
Middlesex Lambton Wind Action Group (Canada)
Middleton Burn Action Group (UK)
Mortlake South Windfarm Action Group (UK)
Mull of Galloway action against offshore wind farms
National Association Against Wind Turbines
NEI til vindkraftanlegg i Meråker (Scandinavia)
Neighbors of the Scituate Turbine
Nej till vindkraft i Östernärke (Scandinavia)
Newfound Lake Wind Watch (America)
NIE dla wiatraków na Łysej Górze ! (Poland)
Nie Turbinom Wiatrowym W Gminie Rutka-Tartak (Poland)
NMEPC – Wind Turbines don’t belong next to where we live!
No centrale Torrente Terchio (Italy)
No Eolico Bagnoregio (Italy)
No Industrial Wind Turbines on Bras D’or Sc
No al Parque Eólico Cozumel (Mexico)
North Kildare Against Wind (Ireland)
No! To Ben Wyvis Wind Farm (UK)
NO to Bog of Allen Wind Farm (UK)
NO to Chittlehampton Wind Turbines
No to Cockermouth Wind Turbines
No to UK Industrial Wind Turbines
No Wind Turbines in Garmouth or Kingston
No to Wind Turbines for Moycullen
No To Wind Turbines Near To Y Foryd and Caernarfon Castle
No To WIND TURBINES On STONEWALL HILL and PENTRE TUMP
No Wind Farms in Dekalb County
No Wind Turbines in Kirkby Overblow
No to wind Turbines in the Trent Valley
No Wind Turbines off the Dorset, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Coast
No Wind Turbines on Killoch Hill
No Wind Turbines on Lake Superior or other Great Lakes
Nuclear Power! Not Wind Turbines.
Ocotillo Wind Turbine Destruction (America)
Offaly Wind Energy Information Group (Ireland)
Onshore Wind Farm worries in Northern Ireland! (UK)
Ontario Anti Wind Turbine Movement
Ontario Residents Against Wind Turbines
Österreichischer Bundesverband zum Schutz des Waldes
PARISHVILLE-HOPKINTON WIND INFO
People Against the Lake Michigan Wind Farm
People Against Wind Turbines in Finland
People Against Wind Turbines in Haldimand/Norfolk (Ontario)
People Over Wind in Co Laois (Ireland)
Petition against wind turbines
Protect North Carolinas Highest Ridges from Commercial Wind Plants
Protect Pumlumon — Folks Against Nant y Moch wind farms
Protest Against SNP Wind Policy
Rathowenwind Turbines (Ireland)
Rettet Den Stadtwald Müncheberg (Germany)
Rhynie Against Cairnmore Extension
Rhode Wind Farm Information Group (Ireland)
River Valley Alliance Against Wind
Rochfortbridge Windfarm Information Group (Ireland)
RTS Substation Action Group – Ratheniska Timahoe Spink and beyond (Ireland)
Salviamo La Lunigiana (Italy)
Saugus Residents Against Industrial Wind Turbines
Save Salcey Forest
Save Mt. Emerald and Walsh’s Bluff Queensland From Wind Turbines
SaveOurSeaShore No Industrial Wind Turbines in our National Parks
Save Our Senecas (Vermont)
Save Our Villages – Newton Longville
Save The East Renfrewshire Green Belt
Save the Mynydd y Betws Neolithic Site
Say No to Big Thunder Wind Farm (Canada)
Say No To Erection Of 45 M Wind Turbine!
Say No to Fallago – from wind farm to wind factory
Say No To More South Wales Valleys Wind Farms
Say No To Mormond Hill Wind Farm
Say No To Stithians/Longdowns Wind Turbine
Say no to the 85.5m wind turbines at Princes Gate, Pembrokeshire
Say NO to the Coxley Wind Turbine near Middlestown and Overton Wakefield
Say NO to the Mynydd-y-Gwair Wind Farm
Say NO to The proposed Queniborough Windfarm
Say NO to the Uttoxeter Wind Turbine
Say NO to the turbines on Thornton Moor
Say NO to Tiree Wind Farm Array
Say No to Turbine on Victoria Embankment Nottingham
Say NO to the Upper Badrain Windfarm, Culbokie
Say NO to Wind Turbines / Farms
Say NO! To Wind Turbines on Anglesey (UK)
Say NO to wind turbines on Bumblebee Mountain
Say NO to wind turbines on March Hywel
Say NO to Wind Turbines on the East Coast
Say NO to windmills on the Great Lakes
SHAMWAG — Shotteswell, Hanwell & Mollington Wind Farm Action Group (UK)
Slieve Bloom Wind Turbine Awareness Group (Ireland)
SPWAG – Shuckburgh Park Wind Farm Action Group
Smithville Turbine Opposition Party
South Kildare Against Spin (Ireland)
SWWAG South Wicklow Wind Action Group (Ireland)
Stithians Turbine Action Group
S.T.E.M.M – (Stop the Exploitation of Mynydd Mynyllod)
Stop Grange Farm Wind Farm, West Ashton, Wilts
Stop Maple Hill Turbines (Canada)
STOP North Pembs Wind Turbines (SNPWT)
Stop the Blairshinnoch and Culbirnie Wind Turbines
Stop the Conestogo Wind Project in North Perth-Perth East, Ontario
Stop The Industrial Wind Turbines
Stop the Industrial Wind Turbines in West Lincoln and Glanbrook
STOP (Stop The Overhead Pylons)
Stop the West Lincoln Wind Turbines! (Ontario)
STOP the Wind Farm at Black Ditch, West Huntspill
STOP the Wind Turbines in Hastings
Stop Wind Turbine Development in New Hampshire
Tehachapi Communities for Responsible Energy Development
The Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland
The Firetower Wind Watch (Massachusetts)
The Wind Action Group
Trees NOT Turbines on Ontario’s West Coast
Tubber Windfarm Information Group (Ireland)
Unite against pylons and industrial wind farm development
Valle Del Tammaro Molise (Italy)
Vermont Wind Resistance II (U.S.)
Vermonters Against Industrial Wind Development
Walkington and Beverley against wind turbines
West Tyrone Against Wind Turbines
Wind Concerns Bruce (Ontario)
Wind mills and wind turbines are destroying our beautiful scenery.
Wind turbines bad for Florida residents and wildlife
Wind Turbine Industry In Rural Ohio
Wind Turbines on Lake Ontario — NO
Wind Turbines Ruining Landscape
Χιώτες Πολίτες και Ανεμογεννήτριες (Greece)
Yerra, no more wind farms in Kerry
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Resource Sites
AWED – Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions
Our Energy Policies — From Science or Lobbyists — John Droz Jr.
The Acoustic Ecology Institute
The Carbon Sense Coalition (Australia)
Wind Power Toolkit (John Droz)
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Reference Sites
Australian Climate Skeptics
AWED – Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions
C3 Headlines — Climate History
Climate Depot
Climbing Out of the Dark
Digging In the Clay
European Institute for Climate and Energy (German site — You might need a translator like Google to read)
False Alarm (Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Global Warming is Misleading, Exaggerated, or Plain Wrong)
Global Warming Policy Foundation
Global Warming Solved
Master Resource
No Tricks Zone
Principia Scientific
Real Climate by Real Scientists
Real Science
The Daily Bayonet
The Resilient Earth
Watts Up With That?
43 Comments on “Links to over 2000 International Anti-wind Groups”
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Please add the link in Maine for http://keepitgrand.org/. This group is fighting a large project slated for a ridge overlooking East Grand Lake in gorgeous Downeast Grand Lakes region of Maine. Greenland Ridge is on the US side of the US-Canada border. This is an active web site.
Thanks so much for the information Brad. I’ve added the link. Any and all groups are welcome so everyone please feel free to let me know of any other sites! Thanks!
Hi, you can add the Gweebarra Conservation Group, Donegal, Ireland – we are on Facebook and http://www.donegalCounty.com/gwee.html
There are many more groups in Ireland. Keep up the good fight!
Will do. Thank you!
Hello,
Please add http://saveoursenecas.org/ to your Vermont list. We also have a FB page.
Thank you!
Thanks Valerie! I’ll get these up today!
Please add Tablelands Wind Turbine Action. We are fighting another large development in Far North Queensland, Australia, of 75, 3MW turbines right in the middle of some of the best horticultural land in Australia. This industrial complex is slated for a high plateau (Mt Emerald) in the wet tropics which draws many tourists for its picturesque scenery.
please add SATNAV – Saltburn Against Turbine Noise and Vibration, plans for 4 x 210m turbines on open land with amazing views – these turbines would be approx. 700m from housing and set so that the sun would set behind them leaving massive flicker problems, thankyou
Will do. Thanks jan!
thank you for listing these..since there is so much brainwash on this we must rely on each other to join forces and spread the word-
thank you for creating a site like this..I am part of the fight Brad Blake is heading so well in Maine and I headed Protect our Lakes..we need to keep getting the word out there on the horrible pitfalls of this scam technology..if green people really thought about it the word INDUSTRIAL would tell them this is NOT a wind mill (which are also intermittent) and NOT environmental in any way..
Thanks for the words of encouragement Donna! We need to keep fighting together and not let up.
This is a fantastic website. It shows how many people worldwide are against this awful menace.
As Part of the fight, I have had an e-petition to the UK government trying to have a minimum distance set between houses and wind turbines of at least 3km. In some parts of the UK there is an advisory setback of 2 km, however as its not compulsory, many wind developers just ignore it. If you live in the UK then please sign.
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/52563
Our group originally set up to fight against a single wind turbine in NE Derbyshire, but joined forces with members from other local groups opposed to wind farms in our area.
http://www.WeSayNoWay.co.uk
Thank you Rob.
You’re welcome. We are currently waiting for the decision of the Planning Inspectorate. So far, our local Council has turned down all applications (4 of them). Ours is the first to go to appeal. We had 1334 signatures on a petition, collected in only two weeks. 200+ objection letters to our application, and we still aren’t confident the result will go our way.
Unfortunately governments seem to be in the pockets of Big Wind and have completely forgotten who they were elected to represent.
Good luck Rob and let us know how it turns out for you. If you have any articles you’d like us to put up on Quixotes let me know and I’ll be glad to do that for your group.
Thanks Donna. 🙂
Hi Donna,
I do not see ” Preserve Clearview” on your list for Ontario. We have been fighting for 5 years and have been involved in law suits . 8 IWT’s 500 meters high , if approved will block in our Collingwood airport and a private aerodrome as well. Houses for sale in the area have been sitting on the market for years!
Thank you! I will add it to the list.
I can not see BI Aufgewacht Eichenzell und Ebersburg in your list. We are from Germany/ Hessen.
http://keine-windkraft-in-ebersburg-eichenzell.de
Danke!
hello
we are a new Bürgerinitiative in Germany
Hi Werner!
Do you have a name and a website that I can add to our list?
Thanks!
Hi Two things please. One can you add our new action group from Scotland UK http://www.abo-wesayno.com to your list. We are fighting German developer ABO Wind to stop their 25 turbine proposal in Kilmorack / Strathglass communities near iconic Glen Affric and Strathfarrar. Also is there anyone who can tell me of an American newspaper that may carry a story of what is happening here. We have a lot of American visitors and we want to tell them how our government is trashing the place and ask them if they will still want to visit if it continues. If anyone knows a friendly journalist that would be awesome! Thank you
Hi Lyndsey,
Thanks so much for your site. I will put it up right away.
Hi Donna – can’t see our website http://www.abo-wesayno.com – if it’s not there please can you put us up under Scotland. Thank you
Hi Lindsay. I have had your website up for quite a while. I figured out why you didn’t see it. I had it under the heading of “No Wind Farm in Kilmorack and Strathglass”, because that’s what your banner says. Is there a different title that you want me to use?
Some more from Czech Republic here: http://www.zelenalouka.org/odkazy_aneb_nejsme_sami.htm
Oh my goodness!!! Thanks so much for the information.
Fabulous, what a webpage it is! This weblog provides helpful data to us, keep
it up.
Hi Donna,
Please include – Anglesey Against Wind Turbines (AAWT)
– http://aawt.org.uk/ – under UK – Wales
Keep up the good work,
Kind regards
John
Hi John. I’ve already got them listed under England. Do I have them under the wrong country? Let me know and I’ll correct it. Thanks for reading our site. 🙂
Donna.
Stockyard Hill Community Guardians is a proactive group in Australia fighting Wind Turbines — there are also many others not listed .
Pat, I would appreciate any information you can give me on these groups, especially websites, if they have any.
Thanks!
This should be sent to every Government. Maybe then they would think about what they are doing to this world.
It depends on how big their kickbacks from the wind industry are.
Hi Karen,
I already have this group up. Maybe I have it under the wrong country? I’ve got it under Wales.
Hi Donna,
We are Tranwell not Trannon and we are in Northumberland in England. I think you are doing a wonderful job! Very best wishes, Karen
Oh! I’ve got it now. LOL…It gets confusing sometimes with so many groups. Thanks for your help!