Wind Power News: U.K.
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Wind farm exhibition didn’t tell full story
I attended one of the exhibitions with regards to the new Auchencairn windfarm and found the information misleading.
The photographic images did not portray the true images of turbines as we view them on a daily basis.
Nor did the futuristic views include the soon-to-be-built 71 turbine wind farm which will commence shortly in Ae forest.
Information sheets state that the electricity produced will “supply consumption of between 11,500-15,500 homes, equating to 17-23 per cent of the households in Dumfries and Galloway.”
Will Dumfries . . .
Debate on wind farms in Northamptonshire
Kettering MP, Philip Hollobone, introduces Westminster Hall debate on planning applications for wind farms in Northamptonshire.
Commons Hansard: Planning applications for wind farms in Northamptonshire
Video and Audio: Planning applications for wind farms in Northamptonshire
About Parliament: Adjournment debates
Parliament News
30 June 2009
Wind farm group to go public
Opponents of a Speyside wind farm plan will crank up the pressure at a public meeting in Dufftown.
All 26 Moray Council members have been invited to the meeting on Monday, July 13 (7.30pm) at Glenifiddich Distillery.
The meeting has been organised by Save Our Scenic Moray (SOS Moray), which is opposed to plans by the Infinergy energy company to create a 59-turbine development at Dorenell on the Glenfiddich Estate.
Moray Council is a statutory consultee for the development, which will ultimately be . . .
Wind farm plans are gust not on
Plans for a four-turbine wind farm on land next to the A75 at Glenluce have been thrown out by councillors.
Wigtown Area Committee this week refused permission for Barlockhart Moor Wind Energy Ltd to construct their planned 152-metre high windmills after it was agreed the development would have a detrimental impact on the landscape.
The plans would have been the seventh wind farm in the south-west of Scotland to be built or to go through planning stages.
Robert Rankin, of Whitecairn Caravan Park, . . .
Wind farm is a 'threat to tranquility'
A major wind farm planning inquiry has been told it would affect the area’s “tranquility” — a quality which attracts most people to the countryside.
Tom Oliver, head of rural policy for the Campaign to protect Rural England (CPRE), told the inquiry, now in its third week, that tranquility can be measured and ‘mapped’.
And, according to a national survey, it was the most common reason for visiting the countryside.
He set out to prove that the proposed development by Airtricity for . . .
Silton Windfarm Unanimously Rejected
The North Dorset District Planning Committee today unanimously rejected the 6 Ecotricity giant industrial turbines proposed for Silton, near Gillingham. This was a great triumph for democracy since over 200 local residents squeezed into the hall to protest, while over 150 were left outside. At the meeting over 30 objectors spoke passionately about the noise and shadow flicker health problems of having turbines only 550 metres from the nearest houses.
“This proposal for turbines 120 metres (394 feet) tall on . . .
Wind turbine plan is powered down
Plans for a wind farm in a picturesque North Dorset setting were sensationally thrown out on July 2.
Despite a recommendation to approve the six 120m-high turbines at Silton, near Gillingham, district councillors unanimously voted to refuse the application.
Hundreds of objectors had earlier protested outside the Olive Bowl conference centre before the tumultuous meeting and around 200 packed out the inside of the hall.
Ultimately the public outcry to Ecotricity’s scheme told, as the council’s development control committee voted to scrap the . . .
Lotus turbine protesters' court victory
Campaigners against a controversial wind turbine scheme at a Norfolk sports car manufacturer have won their latest legal bid to get a planning decision overturned.
Objectors welcomed the news after it emerged that a group of local residents had won the right to challenge the construction of three 120metre masts at Lotus Cars.
The proposals for turbines at Hethel, which would meet the sports car company’s energy requirements, were approved by one vote at a South Norfolk Council planning committee last year . . .
Ulley wind farm D-day
Contentious plans for six 430-feet tall wind turbines near Ulley are expected to be submitted to Rotherham Council next week.
Developers Banks Renewables claim the answer to the borough’s energy targets is blowing in the wind, and has a package of initiatives designed to benefit the surrounding communities.
But Mike Corden, from the windfarm action group, says ‘99.9 per cent’ of Ulley residents strongly oppose the £12m scheme and thousands living nearby have no idea how much it will affect them.
“For them . . .
Wind farm plan blocked
Jubilant scenes greeted a decision by councillors on Thursday to reject planning permission for a wind farm at Silton near Gillingham.
More than 200 people packed a meeting in Gillingham to listen as the arguments were played out over six hours before North Dorset District Council development control committee. Around 150 people had to be turned away.
Councillors had been recommended in a report from planning officer James Lytton-Trevers to approve Ecotricity’s proposal but unanimously refused permission. They decided the plans would . . .
