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Independent?: What are your thoughts?
We looked at the following news with complete and utter disbelief. 27 July 2010: Department of Energy and Climate Change in UK: DECC has announced on 27 July that it will fund a new, independent analysis of matters arising in the consideration of noise impacts in the determination of wind farm planning applications in England. The contract for carrying out the work has been awarded to Hayes McKenzie Partnership, following a standard competitive tendering process. The project will seek to . . .
Blown away by turbines
A protest group are to hold an emergency meeting to voice their opposition to Honda’s plans for three 120m wind turbines at their east Swindon site. Ad hoc campaign group Ill Wind is urging residents in Stratton and South Marston to raise any objections before the consultation period ends on August 13 at a meeting at the Village hotel in South Marston at 7pm tonight. Honda, in conjunction with green energy firm Ecotricity, are looking to follow several other buisness . . .
Planned Birdsedge wind turbine is taller than Big Ben
Villagers have vowed to battle on against plans for a controversial wind farm. Pure Renewable Energies has now formally submitted a planning application to Kirklees Council to build four 360ft (110m) wind turbines near Birdsedge. Residents first became aware of the plan last September when a wind speed measuring mast was installed on farmland off Windmill Lane at High Flatts. Despite no formal application being lodged, they staged several public meetings and protest group Birdsedge and district Opposition to Large . . .
Wind turbine shadows concern
A proposed wind farm near the motorway would “create long shadows across the carriageways confusing motorists and increasing the chance of accidents”, a leading protester told a packed meeting. More than 130 people crammed into West Huntspill Village Hall for the latest meeting on fighting Ecotricity’s plans for five turbines at Black Ditch, West Huntspill, and EDF’s hopes for nine turbines at Withy Grove, East Huntspill. Key speaker was John Wakefield from the Huntspill Wind Farm Action Group, who spoke . . .
Use your rights over wind farms
Planning applications for wind farms are breaking out like a rash across the East Midlands and are causing great distress to communities. Their low-frequency noise, flicker and strobe effects can have serious health consequences. They are an industrial-scale intrusion into some of the finest rural landscapes. In many cases councils and planning officers have believed they had little scope to influence wind farm developments. However, I have recently discovered Planning Policy Statement 22 (PPS22) which explicitly states the right of . . .
Wind factor is useless
I wirte to support Ken Slow’s letter (North Devon Journal, July 15) regarding the ‘scam’ of the century, wind turbines. May I add a few brief points to enlighten Green Party member Rosemary Booth as to why so many of us older, life long environmentalists are so opposed to these industrial factories encroaching on our disappearing countryside. This country produces about one per cent of the world’s CO2. If we stopped all production tomorrow or if Britain suddenly sank to . . .
Man wins High Court appeal battle over wind turbine
A Liskeard man has won a High Court order quashing a Government inspector’s decision to grant planning permission for a wind turbine near his home. A judge ruled the decision-making process conducted by a planning inspector was flawed and the proposal for the turbine at High Down, Redland, Cornwall, must be reconsidered. The ruling at the High Court in London was a victory for Daniel Mageean, of Redland Farm, St Ive, Liskeard. The case is one of several legal actions . . .
The great wind power bait and switch
How much are you willing to pay for green energy? Almost any ratepayer would say that if the electric utilities could obtain a significant amount of their power from a renewable source, and do so without raising rates, then that would be a good deal. It would certainly appear to be a good deal if they could obtain the power and at the same time reduce their rates. For years Cape Wind Associates, which plans to build 130 wind turbines . . .
Protesters praised as wind farm is defeated
Harborough MP Edward Garnier has congratulated campaigners who defeated plans to build a wind farm. Energy4All had planned to erect three 410ft turbines at Airfield Farm, near Market Harborough. But more than 2,000 people campaigned against the scheme and, in January, Harborough council rejected the scheme. Energy4All has now decided not to fight the decision. It had the right to appeal and take the issue to a planning inquiry. Mr Garnier said: “It does not much matter what excuse or . . .
Fears over impact of wind turbine on nearby homes
Plans to install a wind turbine in a “semi-residential” area” have been called in by councillors. Cheshire East councillors Margaret Simon and Brian Silvester are concerned about the impact of an 88ft turbine near Shavington. Developers have asked for permission to install the turbine at Blakelow Business Park, in Newcastle Road, Blakelow. But the councillors said it would mean an “unacceptable visual intrusion into a residential area, over-dominance over adjacent residential properties, the detrimental impact on the visual landscape and . . .
