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Chris Huhne on the hot seat

Abuse of power against anti-windfarm movement

By Guest Column Mark Duchamp——--January 10, 2012

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Legal Advisor to the European Platform Against Windfarms (EPAW), George Watson is being investigated by the UK government under special powers which are only to apply to criminal/terrorist activities, claims the Platform. A letter, reproduced below, has been sent to Chris Huhne, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, denouncing this improper use of the legislation, and announcing legal proceedings against the UK government. A formal complaint has been made to the Metropolitan Police.
According to EPAW, Mr Watson was also harassed by a police officer who visited his home in a Scottish rural area ... on Christmas Eve! Mark Duchamp, Executive Director of EPAW, declared that he was respectfully asking UK government Ministers if they intend to investigate and harass other members of the public who oppose the destruction of the British landscape, the killing of protected bird and bat species, and the deterioration of the health of wind farm neighbours. Mr Watson's only crime, he said, was to have found legal flaws in the way the UK government's energy policy is being applied.
EPAW claims that wind farms are ineffective, immensely expensive, and destroy jobs in the rest of the economy (1); that they are also seriously harming human health, resulting in home abandonment, or worse (2); and finally that they are killing protected wildlife into extinction (3). In the circumstances, concludes Duchamp, the 514 associations from 23 countries represented by EPAW would like to know why their members deserve to be investigated and harassed by the authorities, using special powers reserved for criminals and terrorists. George Watson's letter is appended. Contact: Mark Duchamp tel: + 34 693 643 736 save.the.eagles@gmail.com [url=http://www.epaw.org]http://www.epaw.org[/url] References: (1) - "EU governments did not do their homework on wind energy. It now appears that wind farms may have no benefits at all." (2) - Harming human health: Explicit Cautionary Notice from the Waubra Foundation: - Home abandonment - In addition to noise, inaudible noise can make people seriously ill: The Infrasound Smoking Gun (3) - Wind farms causing the extinction of the Golden Eagle in the US: - Causing the extinction of the Tasmanian Wedge-tailed Eagle: REGISTERED LETTER AND FAX
To: Chris Huhne MP Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 3 Whitehall Place London SW1A 2AW 3rd January 2012 Dear Mr Huhne: Reference: Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) I contact you in relation to the above-mentioned legislation. It was brought to my attention by another Government Department, quite by accident, that you authorised an investigation into my background/private life under the provisions of RIPA. I require you to provide me with the following information: a) It should be noted that it would be negligent administration and an abuse of your position, if you did not have evidence that I was involved in criminal/terrorist activity before authorising such action. Taking this fact into consideration, I require details and copies of ALL instances where I was involved in criminal or terrorist activity. However, I freely admit I have been in constant touch with your office in relation to the idiotic policy of IWT’s* and the danger to Human Health; *editor's note: industrial wind turbines b) I advise you that I require a ‘true copy’ of any warrant granted and details of the issuing court. In addition, I require a ‘true copy’ of ALL additional material presented to the court in order to attain any warrant; c) I require details/copies of ALL documentary information that was attained by your office through the illegal intrusion into my private life. In addition, I require written confirmation that the documentation provided is a full disclosure of information attained/held; d) A ‘true copy’ of the authority signed by yourself for the illegal intrusion into my background/private life. I advise you that I have instructed Senior Counsel to begin legal proceedings against the UK Government and you personally as an individual. I further advise you that as you have abused your position, this is actionable. A Petition will be lodged against the UK Government and yourself in the coming weeks, in which I will seek ‘Punitive Damages (Exemplary Damages) at the amount of £2.5 million (pounds sterling) on a 50/50 split between the UK Government and a personal liability by yourself. An apology is not sufficient in this case. Yours sincerely George Watson

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