Against Subsidised Windfarms Around Rugby

In summer 2010 a Scottish developer gave a week’s notice of an exhibition to announce their 15 turbine wind power station proposal. With half a day’s notice, the community of Churchover had reacted with a Mass Picket. See photo on the right.

The Parish Council, wanting a true test of the Parish’s opinion, organised a listening event for people to confidentially log their view.  Well over 90% were against.

A campaign launch meeting was held in the packed village hall at the end of September ( Click here to see the Press report ) when there was a unanimous vote to set up an Action Group to defend the community.

A second propaganda exhibition by the developer for a 9 turbine proposal was mass picketted in October with many people coming from nearby villages.  click here to read the Press report.

A Rally on the steps of Rugby town Hall was held on a cold january's evening to emphasise to Councillors that over 90% of the community expected them to reject the proposal. See photo on the left.

The developer is proposing 9 wind turbines each linked by a 6 metre concrete track across the valley behind Churchover.  At 126 metres tall, they will be 5 times the height of the village church.  The nearest will be about 700 metres from the officially designated village conservation area and some 430 metres from some houses.

It must be in everybody’s interest to resist these wind turbines

wind is free, windpower is not

• Do you want your electricity prices increased by 50% ( some say much higher) to pay for windfarm ROC subsidies?  Read more…
• Will your house value be reduced? Read more.. It is a good investment in time and money to help the fight. 
• Do you want one of the Midland's iconic views of a conservation village with its 9^th century historic church that presently dominates the meandering Swift Valley to be blighted and vandalised?
• Are the health hazards of Turbine noise (audio and infra-sound) being brushed under the table?
• If the Churchover windfarm goes ahead, it will be the first of many across the rural Rugby area and being in a beautiful area and so close to housing, no area will be protected in the future. Help stop a precedent being created.
• A wind energy policy stands no chance of altering atmospheric CO2 concentrations, still less of deflecting climate change. Read more..
• Protect your life – support ASWAR

“saving the environment” by building wind power stations that damage the environment, is NOT a good idea!