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		<title>Villagers up in arms over Lewis to mainland power cable proposal</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fears area will become industrialised landscape  
Angry villagers on Lewis have held an emergency meeting over the proposed electricity cable between Lewis and the mainland.
Scottish And Southern Energy wrote to residents of Pairc last week confirming the rural coastal village of Gravir as the place where the cable will enter the Minch to export energy from windfarms on the island.
A converter station to be built on the hill above Gravir would be the centralised collection point for power before .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Expert fears over green energy targets</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Scottish Council for Development and Industry scrutinises plans to generate 50% of power from renewables by 2020
Scotland&#8217;s chances of hitting its target of generating 50% power from renewable sources by 2020 is to be scrutinised in an independent study by an international energy specialist.
The Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI) has commissioned consultants Wood Mackenzie to look at future electricity generation in Scotland.
SCDI said it was doing so in response to widespread concerns over the economic impact of rising .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Hen harrier chicks found crushed on moors</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Police are investigating the death of five hen harrier chicks found crushed on moorland on the Isle of Skye.
Bird of prey monitors said the chicks, which are a protected species, were healthy in the middle of last month. But when they returned to the nest last week, they found just remains.
The find was reported to Northern Constabulary, which is investigating whether offences have been committed under the Wildlife Act.
A spokesman said: &#8220;The remains have been taken to the Scottish Agricultural .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Closing Bell &#8212; Why the answer on power is not blowing in wind</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was lucky enough to spend three days on the West Coast of Scotland recently. Inexplicably the sun shone without interruption and the views were breathtaking, helped by the mighty midge being in a sun-stroked sulk.
However, one aspect of this glorious part of the world that I find less than inspiring is the swathes of sitka woodlands.
The Forestry Commission manages 7,720sq km of land in the UK, some 60 per cent of which is in Scotland. And although there are .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Turbine noise nuisance highlighted</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Campaigners fighting plans for a substantial windfarm in the countryside near Ceres have highlighted a landmark legal case in England during which it was acknowledged that house prices could be affected by noise nuisance from turbines.
Yesterday Graham Lang, of Ceres and District Environment and Amenity Protection Group, said that the case involved a couple from Lincolnshire, one of whom had travelled to Auchtermuchty last year to speak to campaigners as the debate raged over the firm EnergieKontor and a site .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>MP condemns windfarm</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[An MP suspects ‘not in my back yard’ politics were behind the approval of Europe’s biggest windfarm to be on the edge of Annandale.
Tory David Mundell believes the £600million Clyde windfarm only got the go-ahead from the Scottish Government because it didn’t sit in an SNP constituency.
The 152-turbine windfarm will be built in clusters on either side of the M74 and will stretch from Abington to Moffat.
The Dumfriesshire MP said his suspicions are backed up by the rejection of plans .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm a blot on Scottish greenness, says Bellamy</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>31 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[David Bellamy, the broadcaster and environmentalist, has lambasted the Scottish government&#8217;s “baffling” decision to approve the construction of the huge Clyde wind farm in South Lanarkshire, describing the project as “an enormous blot on the credibility of Scotland as a green place”.
His comments are a stark contrast to those of Alex Salmond, the First Minister, who last week announced the scheme as a step on the road to making Scotland the “green capital” of Europe. A total of 152 turbines .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Park bosses oppose wind farm plan</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Cairngorms National Park is objecting to amended plans for 33 wind turbines tipping 125 metres which will be visible from the Cairngorms and other high tops in the strath.
Renewable Energy Systems Development Ltd is behind the controversial scheme to construct the wind farm on land on the Dunmaglass Estate in the Monadhliath Mountains.
The location lies 10km north west of the national park boundary but members said that along with the development of other wind farms proposed close-by, it would .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farms will destroy our landscape</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week First Minister Alex Salmond declared that Executive approval of the Clyde wind farm signalled Scotland&#8217;s self-appointment as Europe&#8217;s &#8220;green capital&#8221;.
We are all well used to Mr Salmond&#8217;s crass and so often ill-informed political antics, but this particular manifestation of his abject surrender to the eco-fundamentalist lobby takes the biscuit.
But, forget the politics; lets look at the facts and figures: 152 turbines, each 406 feet high, will straddle the M74 at Abington – giving North-bound tourists a foretaste of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Two new windfarms proposed; But still no news of huge Kyle scheme</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two new windfarms have been proposed near Dallmellington and Muirkirk by renewable energy company Infinis.
Burnhead near Dallmellington, and Galawhistle east of Muirkirk have been marked as possible windfarm locations for 20 and 20 wind turbines respectively.
But plans for the much larger Kyle Windfarm are still no closer despite an inquiry more than a year ago.
MSP Cathy Jamieson asked Ministers back in March when a decision on the Kyle Wind Farm would be made by ministers.
MSP Jim Mather stated in March .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Salmond enters lion’s den to announce expansion of windfarm programme</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A fresh extension of the country&#8217;s windfarm capacity was announced yesterday as the First Minister faced critics of such developments in the lion&#8217;s den of a National Conversation event in Dumfries.
His entire Cabinet met at the Crichton Campus in the town yesterday before all the ministers faced an audience of around 160, many of whom objected to the South-west being at the forefront of expansion of the renewables sector.
But Alex Salmond was able to announce a new £22m expansion of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>New Clatto Hill wind farm fears</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Members of a landscape protection group who were involved in a successful campaign against a wind farm plan for Clatto Hill near Cupar are “filled with dread” over the prospect of having to go through the whole process all over again.
Greg Brown, chairman of Clatto Landscape Protection Group (CLPG), expressed fears as plans for the area resurface in the hands of a different operator.
Previous plans for 17 turbines on Clatto Hill were fought by the group after they were revealed .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Big expansion to Dunbar windfarm announced</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>29 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A green energy operator is to expand a Scottish wind farm and double its workforce in a £22 million investment, it was announced today.
Natural Power won permission to build nine more turbines at the Crystal Rig site near Dunbar, East Lothian, adding to the 77 already constructed.
The firm will also create 50 new jobs at its global headquarters in Dalry, Dumfries and Galloway.
First Minister Alex Salmond, who officially opened the revamped offices, said the move completed &#8220;the most exciting&#8221; period .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>East Lothian wind farm to be extended</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>29 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Crystal Rig windfarm near Dunbar is to be extended by a capacity great enough to power more than 13,000 homes, First Minister Alex Salmond announced today.
The FM announced the £22 million investment during his visit to Natural Power, the Dumfries and Galloway based company who develop and operate wind farm sites like Crystal Rig.
Officially opening new office space at Natural Power&#8217;s Headquarters, Mr Salmond said:
&#8220;Scotland is already home to Natural Power&#8217;s headquarters here in Dumfries and Galloway. This expansion .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Massive windfarm &#8212; &#39;a political decision of the worst kind&#39;</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Europe&#8217;s largest windfarm is to be built at one of Peeblesshire’s busiest entrances.
And the 152-turbine plant between Abingdon and Biggar has been described as an abomination by local MP David Mundell.
Thousands of tourists arrive in the western Borders every year from the M74.
But the picturesque hillsides will soon be home to the massive Clyde Windfarm.
First Minister Alex Salmond made the announcement in Glasgow this week.
He said: “The Clyde Windfarm will represent a very important step in the development of renewable .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Isles first major wind farm gets final permission</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ The first major wind farm for the Western Isles was finally granted planning permission this afternoon (thurs).
Western Isles Council quietly signed the go-ahead for the £ 45 million scheme making it the only large energy scheme  in the Hebrides to be approved.
Earlier this year the Scottish Government refused building the world’s largest onshore wind scheme on Lewis
The 13 giant turbines will be split on each side of the Feiriosbhal and Beinn Mheadhanach hills on the Eishken estate.
It is .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Exporting green energy</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The now widely publicised intention of our government to produce renewable energy for large scale export to Europe is a proposition about which the electorate needs to understand much more about the environmental and economic consequences before agreeing to it proceeding. Theoretically it could produce revenue, but the capital costs involved in setting up the system are unclear and indeed probably not yet fully known. The government must always remember that wind turbines are short term compared
Over and above all .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Scottish wind farms remain an eyesore</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[It would seem that the industrialisation of rural Scotland is gathering pace with the approval by the Scottish Government for the largest wind farm in Europe in south Lanarkshire (The Herald, July 22). The article suggests that lovers of the hills and moors of our beautiful little country are destined to lose &#8220;a lot of battles&#8221; in future opposition to further wind farm development. Well, perhaps not.
The SNP government was voted in by the Scottish electorate and its MSPs can .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Controversy as turbines planned for North-east; Residents object to wind farm proposal</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Developers have submitted plans for 10 more wind turbines in the North-east.
Councillors will meet next week to consider four applications for the wind energy structures.
Aberdeenshire Council’s Formartine area committee are to discuss the applications for planning permission.
There have been 12 letters of objection to one of the schemes.
Permission for one 9m (29.5ft) turbine at a house in Crombiebrae, Bourtie, near Oldmeldrum, has been lodged with the authority.
Another application is for three turbines, including the repositioning of two, at St Johns .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Salmond&#39;s giant U-turn on wind farms reveals falsity of pre-election rhetoric</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back in January 2007, Alex Salmond was unequivocal: &#8220;There is a real difficulty with public acceptance of onshore wind.&#8221; &#8220;There should be a cap on future developments.&#8221; &#8220;We should concentrate the development of onshore wind into suitable areas.&#8221;
He went to say that financial support for onshore wind farms should be looked at again as there was a danger onshore wind developers were getting too much financial support. Of course, all that was done to help the SNP get elected and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/25/salmonds-giant-u-turn-on-wind-farms-reveals-falsity-of-pre-election-rhetoric/</link>
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		<title>Wind turbines do a turn for islanders</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[An agreement was signed yesterday between a power company and Western Isles Council to ensure islanders benefit from a wind farm.
Beinn Mhor Power has offered the Eishken community on Lewis ownership of two turbines in the Lochs area.
The Scotsman
24 July 2008
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				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/25/wind-turbines-do-a-turn-for-islanders/</link>
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		<title>Wind farm talks</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[People in Lochwinnoch are up in arms over news that wind farms could be erected in the area.
Dr Bill Wilson, SNP MSP for the West of Scotland, has been speaking to local people about their views on the development of wind farms within Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park but has received a very mixed response.
He has written to nearly 2,000 people in the Lochwinnoch area asking for their views on the controversial plan. Around 9,000 hectares of the park were designated .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/24/wind-farm-talks/</link>
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		<title>Viewers hit out by TV blackout thanks to wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thousands of televisions have been blacked out &#8212; by a wind farm.
Householders are missing their favourite programmes because the farm&#8217;s giant turbines are blocking the signal to their TVs.
The blackout has hit viewers in East Kilbride. And ScottishPower yesterday admitted their £150million wind farm at Whitelee, on Eaglesham Moor, is causing the problems.
It is stopping signals from the transmitter in Darvel, Ayrshire.
People in Glasgow&#8217;s east end have already complained about dodgy TV receptions caused by the 110-metre Whitelee masts.
And aerial .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/24/viewers-hit-out-by-tv-blackout-thanks-to-wind-farm/</link>
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		<title>Is proposed new wind farm in Lanarkshire a bigger threat to Scotland than the Act of Union&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month when on holiday in Skye, I took a trip to Minginish, reputedly Sorley MacLean&#8217;s favourite parish on the island. From Fiskavaig, the view across Loch Bracadale to Duirinish was a picture-postcard. Until they hit me. The wind turbines above Edinbane might improve certain landscapes, but not this one. Nor do those behind Stirling Castle enhance the Braes o&#8217; Doune. Mercifully, we have been spared the 182-turbine-charged madness on Lewis. The destruction of peatlands, a natural sink for .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/24/is-proposed-new-wind-farm-in-lanarkshire-a-bigger-threat-to-scotland-than-the-act-of-union/</link>
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		<title>Neglected local communities will be biggest losers in rush for wind farms</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Europe&#8217;s largest wind farm, being built at Abington and Crawford (your report, 22 July), is big news, but little is said about the fight by local people to prevent wind farms being built over the Southern Uplands.
South Lanarkshire Council had also decided these hills should be protected from wind farms and made large alternative areas elsewhere in South Lanarkshire available for wind farm applications. The Scottish Government has ignored all this and considers the Southern Uplands landscape to be of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/24/neglected-local-communities-will-be-biggest-losers-in-rush-for-wind-farms/</link>
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		<title>Green light for big Scottish wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Europe’s largest onshore wind farm has been given the go-ahead in Scotland – just as plans to erect the UK’s biggest individual onshore wind turbine in Northumberland were approved by ministers.
The £600m ($1.2bn) Clyde wind farm will have 152 turbines and total capacity of 456MW, enough to power more than 250,000 homes.
The turbine to be built at Blyth will reach 163m, almost 30m taller than the London Eye, and will have generation capacity of up to 7.5MW.
Alex Salmond, first minister, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/23/green-light-for-big-scottish-wind-farm/</link>
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		<title>Whitelee wind farm causing TV tuning problems</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The East Kilbride area is in the midst of a television blackout as thousands of residents struggle to tune in because of the giant Whitelee wind farm.
The News reported back in May that several frustrated viewers in Stewartfield had reported signal failure after their Freeview digital boxes suddenly stopped working.
But the problem is now spreading and residents from as far afield as Calderwood, Carmunnock and Auldhouse are now unable to switch on to their favourite shows.
The recent blackout is being .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/23/whitelee-wind-farm-causing-tv-tuning-problems/</link>
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		<title>Windfarm blow; Campaigners dismayed as green light given</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Europe&#8217;s largest onshore windfarm in Clydesdale&#8217;s rural countryside, has been given the green light by the Scottish Government.
The news came as a blow to local people who campaigned against the Clyde Windfarm since it was first proposed five years ago.
Clydesdale MP David Mundell described the giant windfarm as &#8220;an abomination&#8221;, and claimed the decision to approve it was a political one.
He said: &#8220;This windfarm is far too big; it will scar and completely overwhelm the local landscape.
&#8221;It only got the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/23/windfarm-blow-campaigners-dismayed-as-green-light-given/</link>
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		<title>Wind turbines plan for beauty spot is scaled down</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A windfarm planned for a north-east beauty spot has been scaled down to try to reduce the visual impact on the area.
Plans for three wind turbines at Hillhead of Auquhirie, near Stonehaven, have been submitted to Aberdeenshire Council.
The proposal, by Brechin-based Auquhirie Land Co, seeks permission for three turbines each standing at 250ft.
The application replaces a previous proposal for three turbines of 300ft, which has not yet been passed by the council.
Local residents had objected to the original application, submitted .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/23/wind-turbines-plan-for-beauty-spot-is-scaled-down/</link>
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		<title>Controversy surrounds plan for wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The SNP is boasting of how it will support a massive new wind farm (&#8221;Europe&#8217;s biggest wind farm to be built in Scotland&#8221;, July 22). No mention of how much subsidy will have to go into this. My guess would be at least £3bn eventually. Holyrood is subsidising wind turbines to the tune of £1bn a year which would be more than enough to give us all the 3p tax cut allowed. Doubtless, with its well-known enthusiasm for referendums, the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/23/controversy-surrounds-plan-for-wind-farm/</link>
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		<title>Cost of wind power &#39;scam&#39;</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[You report (22 July) that the 152-turbine wind farm in South Lanarkshire will supply 320,000 homes. At a wind speed of 14mph, what will the 280,000 homes without electricity do? At a wind speed of 12mph, what will the 300,000 homes without electricity do? At 10mph, what will the 320,000 homes without electricity do?
Burning Issue (21 July) revealed Friends of the Earth&#8217;s flawed philosophy for a green future. Vehicle biofuels will be provided by other countries while we specialise in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/23/cost-of-wind-power-scam/</link>
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		<title>Wind farms: now we&#39;ve got the biggest in Europe</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Alex Salmond declared Scotland on the brink of a renewables revolution yesterday as he gave the go-ahead for the largest wind farm in Europe.
The First Minister told the World Renewable Energy Congress in Glasgow the green light had been given to a 152-turbine project in South Lanarkshire. The chairman of the congress then hailed Mr Salmond as the &#8220;saint of renewable energy&#8221;.
Mr Salmond now expects Scotland to become the green-energy capital of Europe and a major exporter of renewable energy .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/22/wind-farms-now-weve-got-the-biggest-in-europe/</link>
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		<title>Scotland to get Europe&#39;s largest onshore windfarm</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Europe&#8217;s largest onshore windfarm is to be built in southern Scotland after being approved by the Scottish Government.
The 152-turbine Clyde windfarm near Abington, in South Lanarkshire, will be capable of powering up to 320,000 homes.
It is estimated the development will bring £600 million of investment while during construction the project is expected to create 200 jobs, with approximately 30 staff employed when fully operational.
The Clyde windfarm will be built in clusters of turbines on either side of the M74 motorway.
Speaking .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/21/scotland-to-get-europes-largest-onshore-windfarm/</link>
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		<title>Wind farm &#39;buy-in&#39; on the table</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[If a single community-owned turbine was included in a major new commercial wind farm development near Ashkirk it could generate profits of around £100,000 a year for Hawick and district.
The idea of a &#8220;buy-in&#8221; to the private venture has already received support from senior planning officials at Scottish Borders Council, according to Frances Ryan, secretary of the Greener Hawick group which is currently consulting on the proposal.
It comes two months after Airtricity was granted planning consent to build 10 giant .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Campaigners will fight new Clatto windfarm plan</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Campaigners who successfully saw off a plan to build a 17 turbine windfarm at Clatto Hill three years ago, have said they&#8217;re ready to fight any new applications for the site.
Welsh-based firm West Coast Energy has confirmed Clatto Hill is one of a number of possible sites in Fife it is looking at to construct a new windfarm.
The company has already been given consent to go ahead with Fife&#8217;s first windfarm near Cardenden, and is currently assessing the suitability of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>No imperative for windfarm at any price</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[I would like to comment on some points in the letter “Windfarm Subsidies” in last week’s edition of your paper.   Firstly, and to give balance, as well as being acclaimed in some quarters the “Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change” has also been variously described as biased, selective, unbalanced, scientifically flawed, a vehicle for speculative alarmism, and not a basis for informed and responsible policies.  To consider spending annually a sum equal the annual Defence .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Windfarm plans spark concern</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[I can accept that Fife Council’s South West Fife area committee had little option but to approve the erection of a single wind monitoring mast near Saline under existing planning laws, as reported in last Week’s Press.
However, the developer, ABO Wind UK Ltd, has now started a thoroughly misleading and at times wholly inaccurate campaign for a full windfarm with the distribution of its glossy newsletter, “Proposed Northwest Saline Windfarm”, to the local Saline community.
For example, ABO states that this .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Date set for Drone Hill wind farm public inquiry; Coldingham village hall the likely venue</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A date has been set for the start of the Drone Hill wind farm public inquiry.
The hearing will begin on Tuesday, August 12, when developers PM Renewables will try to overturn a decision by Scottish Borders Council to reject their application for 22 turbines at the site near Coldingham.
The inquiry will be led by a Scottish Government Reporter, who will make the final decision on whether to grant permission to install turbines on the site.
SBC rejected PM Renewables application in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/17/date-set-for-drone-hill-wind-farm-public-inquiry-coldingham-village-hall-the-likely-venue/</link>
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		<title>Amec to sell off Lewis wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Lewis wind farm project is up for sale as developer Amec gets rid of its wind-farm business it is reported.
The multi-national has declined to comment on reports that it recruited corporate consultants Rothschild to organise bids for its exit strategy out of the wind energy game.
Amec Wind Energy has a 50% share in the 181 turbine Lewis Wind Farm and has led the project over the past five years. British Energy owns the other half of a proposed scheme.
Though .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Plans shape up for Gravir energy cable</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[SSE intend to apply for planning permission to build a huge subsea electricity cable between Lewis and the mainland  later this year.
Gravir on Lewis has been confirmed as the preferred site for the underwater link to export energy from giant windfarms on the island.
SSE says that the proposed route between Gravir and the mainland seems the best for the interconnector. The seabed was surveyed last summer.
A converter station is still earmarked to be built on the hill above Gravir .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm plans threaten woods</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We refer to the article in the &#8220;Gazette&#8221; of July 2 which is promoting the laudable programme of work being carried out by Trees for Life in Increasing the area of one of Scotland&#8217;s most valuable and scarce resources, its Caledonian pine forests.
It might interest your readership and Trees for Life to know, however, that, of the eight wind farm sites now currently being put forward by landowners for development in and around Dava Moor, four of these sites are .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Turbine assessment gets go ahead</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A bid by an energy company to explore the potential development of a new wind farm in Dumfriesshire has been approved by the Scottish Government.
It has overturned the local council&#8217;s decision to block the construction of a wind speed mast in Auchencairn Forest.
Protestors fear the project could lead to more turbines.
A spokesman for the company behind the plans, Acciona, said it would consult with the public before any such plans were put forward.
The wind mast equipment will be used to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>New wind farm plan looms over Clatto Hill</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The prospect of a wind farm is again looming over Fife’s Clatto Hill, almost three years after a previous bid was ditched amid strong protest.
West Coast Energy has confirmed that the hill, between Cupar and Kennoway, is one of several sites in Fife which it is looking at.
The North Wales firm is behind the first wind farm in Fife to be granted planning permission—at Little Raith, near Cowdenbeath, and is seeking to add to its portfolio in the area.
It has .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>MP in windfarm battle</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[An MP is urging protest over a massive windfarm development in the hills above Moffat.
David Mundell believes the “controversial” Wind Energy scheme to put up 36 turbines will have a “significant impact” on the scenic Devil’s Beeftub. The plans, which have been submitted to the Scottish Government, centre on Earlshaugh, five miles north of Moffat and almost same distance from Tweedsmuir.
The Dumfriesshire MP said: “This is a very controversial application.
“I believe of all the windfarm proposals this will have the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Windfarm photomontages</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Highland Council must be applauded for questioning the accuracy of photomontages presented by windfarm developers (the Press and Journal, July 9)
Lewis residents complained for years about Lewis Wind Power’s misleading photomontages for the now-rejected Lewis windfarm, but the developer insisted its visual representations were accurate, right down to the floating, sylph-like structures, poised like ballet dancers on an otherwise pristine, undisturbed moorland landscape.
Often, these delicate alien impostors looked the same height as the 10-metre electricity poles already on the landscape. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Power cable to be put underground</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A cable forming part of a plan to deliver power from island wind farms to the mainland would be buried underground, it has been confirmed.
Pressure groups had concerns electricity would be carried via pylons from Dundonnell on Little Loch Broom in Wester Ross to Beauly, near Inverness.
Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) has said it would go underground. Planning consent will be sought for the project.
The cable is part of a wider plan to connect to renewable energy schemes.
Putting the Little .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm bird mortality hushed up in Scotland&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sir,—Re Thomas Brown’s letter, Greatest threat to birds is man, July 5, he asks: “Do we have proof that wind turbines are such a threat to birds?”
Well, yes, we do. In California alone, 20,000 raptors have been killed by them, including 2300 golden eagles, and 100,000 other birds ( Developing methods to reduce bird mortality in the Altamont Pass wind resource area, Dr Smallwood &#038; K. Thelander, August, 2004, and other evidence).
He also comments: “Birds are not stupid.”
Neither are children, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Turbine inquiries on the horizon</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Public inquiries have been scheduled into plans for two wind farm developments in the Scottish Borders.
PM Renewables&#8217; 22-turbine scheme on Drone Hill near Coldingham was rejected by councillors last November.
The developers have appealed against that decision and a public inquiry is set to get under way next month.
Meanwhile Windjen, which wants to build eight turbines near Dunion Hill at Jedburgh, will have its appeal against refusal heard in January 2009.
Residents near Coldingham formed an action group to protest against PM .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>We don’t want windfarms in Caldercruix</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am writing to add my voice to what I suspect is growing opinion against the proposed windfarm – the windfarm that I believe should be stopped and I accept there is not planning permission for.
Is the windfarm proposed for Caldercruix?
Caldercruix in my opinion is one of the most scenic areas in Lanarkshire.
It has the beautiful Hillend Reservoir (at one time the largest man-made reservoir in Europe), and the surrounding hillsides.
We do not want to be used as a dumping .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Peat bogs are Europe’s rainforests</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Alyn Smith MEP fulminates about my opposition to building wind farms on deep peat (Letters, July 9). He accuses me of &#8220;bad science&#8221; and says my arguments are &#8220;illogical.&#8221; 
I must point out to Alyn that my arguments are based only on the findings of four of the UK&#8217;s leading scientific experts on peat who addressed a recent seminar in the European Parliament in Brussels and were unanimous in their view that wind turbines should not be constructed on peatland. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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