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Controversial turbine plan is cut to four
The company behind the controversial East Stoke wind farm has cut its number of proposed turbines by a third.
Infinergy, which wanted to build six 125-metre turbines at Masters Pit, Puddletown Road, now plans just four for the site.
Project bosses say this downsize is a response to residents’ concerns, an explanation that has been rubbished by wind farm opponents.
Dorset Against Rural Turbines (Dart) president Terry Stewart said: “The main reason we are against these proposals, and …
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Windfarms: why they are flawed
Many readers will be wondering why there is so much concern about Nuon’s proposed windfarm at Swinford.
How many readers actually know the reality of wind turbines?
There is much hype, and windfarms are presented as a good thing. If only that were true!
Readers may have noticed that there is little comment about whether they work or not. That is because the Government has declared that the planning authority “should not make assumptions about the technical …
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Campaigners set for new wind turbines battle
Campaigners celebrating after plans for two huge wind turbines in the Lancashire countryside were thrown out have warned developers: “We will fight on.”
Councillors in Wyre rejected plans for the turbines at Eagland Hill, between Garstang and Pilling.
Cornwall Light and Power wanted to erect two 80m high wind turbines, which stretched up to 125m at the peak of the blades, at Orchard End, Eagland Hill.
The plans sparked more than 300 objections, with protesters claiming the structures …
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Is building more windfarms the answer?
When it is finished later this year, the giant offshore windfarm off the Skegness coast will be the largest in the world.
It might assume that mantle only briefly, but the development, spearheaded by energy giant Centrica and using technology developed by Siemens, will still be a leading light of Britain’s wind energy industry.
Earlier this year the Government agreed to a tough target of getting 15 per cent of all its energy from renewable sources by …
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County council U-turn over windfarm plan
Northumberland County Council has withdrawn its objections to proposals by Hexham-based company Amec for a windfarm in Tynedale.
In a letter submitted to the public inquiry looking at three separate applications, the council said that its major concerns had been dealt with by the company’s decision to modify its original plans.
Amec had initially intended to put up 20 turbines in the Ray Estate, but in light of evidence presented at the inquiry, altered the number to …
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The wind of change — not here thanks
HgCapital, the private equity group, is in trouble with the residents of the Weald of Kent over the possible funding of a wind turbine in their back yard. The Kent Weald Action Group has a website devoted to the protest, and accuses Hg of being socially irresponsible in siting the turbine within 600m of many people’s homes. “We have provided them with evidence of how people’s lives have been totally blighted elsewhere by having turbines …
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Could wagons tilt at new windmills?
Lorries could be blown over by gusts from a proposed windfarm next to the M6 in Lancashire, an expert claimed today.
Plans have been submitted for 18 five-metre vertical wind turbines at the Brockholes Quarry site at Samlesbury, near Preston, as part of bigger plans for a 112-hectare multi-million pound nature reserve.
But today Preston-based chartered electrical engineer and lecturer Dr Roy Horton, who has carried out consultancy work on turbines across the world, said turbulence created …
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"Goliath" wind turbine plan thrown out
Plans for two giant wind turbines which would have dominated the Wyre countyside have been defeated.
Around 30 local residents descended on Wyre Council’s planning committee yesterday to ensure plans at Pilling for the power generators, which would have been 410ft tall at the tips of the blades, were thrown out.
Protesters brought their own scale model of one of the turbines, complete with model church, bus, phone box and human figure to illustrate the impact.
The proposal …
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Windfarm complaint to Advertising Authority
The developer of a proposed wind farm has complained to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).
RH Bott and Sons, which proposes to erect three 400ft high turbines on land on High Elms Lane between Benington, Aston and Watton-at-Stone, made the complaint about the Stop Benington Wind Farm (SBWF) campaign leaflet because it was concerned people would be misled by some of the information in it.
It believed the computer generated images in the leaflet “did not represent …
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Turbine plans backed
Two giant wind turbines are to be constructed on the outskirts of Lowestoft after a planning inspector gave the project the green light.
Peter Beasley ruled in favour of energy company SLP after it appealed against Waveney District Council’s failure to decide on the £4m plans.
It means the turbines, of a similar size to the Gulliver turbine in Lowestoft, can now be put up at Kessingland without a decision being taken by district councillors.
Opponents claimed the …
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