Concerns over bids for more wind turbines
Campaigners fear more than 1,000 wind turbines could be built across Powys as more planning applications are set to flood in.
Protesters fear they will have a devastating impact on the countryside and they say they intend to do all they can to prevent them from being built.
Stephen McKeown, of the campaigning group Cadwriaeth Ucheldir Powys, said 840 turbines were already headed for Mid Wales and he fears there will be hundreds more.
He said: “The 840 are just the ones we as a group know about, but there are more in the pipeline and the number will rise and could eventually exceed 1,000 turbines.
“Incidentally the new Government targets are for an additional 4,000 turbines throughout the UK and it is expected without speculation that many more of these will be headed for Mid Wales in addition to the 840 or so that are planned.”
Read more in the Shropshire Star
13 November 2009
Tags: Wind power, Wind energy
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