Wind Power News: U.K.
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These news and opinion items are gathered by National Wind Watch to help keep readers informed about developments related to industrial wind energy. They are the products of the organizations or individuals noted.
Last minute appeal for wind farm bid
A bis to build a £40 million wind farm in Midlothian has been resurrected by energy giant E.ON.
The firm’s plans to build 18 wind turbines with a maximum height of 102 metres at the popular Auchencorth Moss beauty spot near Penicuik were rejected by Midlothian Council in February.
But the scheme now looks set to go to a public inquiry after E.ON lodged an appeal against the decision with just days to spare before the deadline to appeal expired. . . .
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Protest as decision due on turbines
Dozens of people living near the site of a proposed windfarm are due to demonstrate outside a meeting in north Shropshire tonight.
More than 50 people living near Lower Farm, Bearstone, near Market Drayton, will turn out at the meeting of North Shropshire District Council’s development control committee with banners and placards protesting against the seven giant wind turbines proposed for the site.
Protesters were also due to fly a blimp over the site at 110 metres, the proposed height . . .
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Do you know you're backing windfarms?
Employees of wind turbine companies have been canvassing support in Cumbrian towns to aid their planning applications to build on green field sites, encircling The Lake District National Park.
Residents of the towns probably have no detailed knowledge of the individual sites, but are supporting renewable energy, which they mistakenly believe to be deliverable and cheap.
The government’s obligation to the EU to build 7,000 more turbines before 2020 at a cost exceeding £100bn pounds, or more than £4,000 for every . . .
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Jewel in the crown at risk
I am writing to object to the planning application for wind turbines at Davidstow in Cornwall.
As owner of Hamatethy Common, which includes Roughtor, I am grief-stricken that anyone would want to ruin the whole of our beautiful moors – they are the jewels in the crown for North Cornwall.
We (the landowners and the commoners) have been forced to give unlimited public access in the right to roam so that everyone can enjoy the moors, and now they are . . .
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Wind farm set for approval
A controversial bid for a wind farm on the South Cheshire border is set to be given the green light by planning chiefs tomorrow night (Tuesday).
More than 2,300 objections have been lodged against Nuon Renewables’ plans to erect the seven-turbine development at the Poplar Lane site at Woore but planners at North Shropshire District Council are recommending it is accepted.
The turbines, said to be as high as St Paul’s Cathedral, would be clearly visible from Nantwich, Audlem, Buerton and . . .
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Council clarifies its position on windfarms: no 'pre-determined position'
Wynne Jones, Powys County Council’s portfolio holder for regeneration and development, has said the council has no pre-determined position on windfarms.
Councillor Jones was addressing a specially arranged board meeting at County Hall to explain his comments to the media on pending windfarm applications in Powys.
The meeting had been called in reaction to interviews Cllr Jones gave to the County Times and BBC television in which he said that work on all windfarm planning applications in Powys had been . . .
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Wind farm warriors prepare for battle
Fifteen years of phoney war is coming to an end in the fight for the future of an area described as “West Glamorgan’s last wilderness”.
A planning application has been submitted for 19 pylons scaling 400ft for Mynydd-y-Gwair, north of Swansea.
Farmer Glyn Morgan, chairman of Save Our Common Mountain Environment, the campaign group set up to fight the plans for a large wind farm, said: “It will be completely devastating for the upland area of Mynydd-y-Gwair. The infrastructure put . . .
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Celebrity opposition to wind plan
A popular television personality has joined the fight against controversial plans for a windfarm on land near Market Drayton.
Professor David Bellamy OBE, said the proposed site at Lower Farm, Bearstone, for seven giant wind turbines is the most “ill conceived site” he has ever seen.
The author and botanist, who famously helped stop a windfarm being built in mid Wales on Blue Peter in 1996, said windfarms do not generate much extra electricity, and spoil the landscape.
He has . . .
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Councils’ views set to be blown away
Council bosses could be forced to withdraw their objections to a planned wind farm.
Berwick Borough Council had intended to try to block a proposal to erect turbines at Wandylaw, near Chathill. But the council could decide to withdraw its objection less than a fortnight ahead of a public inquiry.
RidgeWind Ltd wants to build 10 turbines at the site. But the council refused the application last October by eight votes to two on the basis it would harm the . . .
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Missing paragraph caused confusion
SETTING IT STRAIGHT: Following my letter in The Sentinel on August 8 regarding wind farms and Judith Oppenheimer’s response of August 21, I would like to set the record straight.
Unfortunately a vital paragraph in my original letter was omitted which resulted in a personal attack on myself. The paragraph should have read: “Wind farms cast a shadow on home prices”. In the first legal ruling in the UK it was stated that home owners living near wind farms could . . .
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