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		<title>Planners change minds on turbines</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Councillors have withdrawn three of their four objections to plans for a wind farm in Northumberland. 
Members of Berwick Borough Council Planning Committee have unanimously agreed to amend their views on a proposal to erect turbines at Wandylaw, near Chathill, after the release of the Regional Spatial Strategy, drawn up by the North East Assembly to set out future land use. 
One objection remains – about the effect of turbines on the air defence radar at RAF Brizlee Wood, Alnwick. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Deer cull &#39;will be humane&#39;; Estate manager seeks to reassure windfarm protesters</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The manager of a Sutherland estate yesterday reassured people protesting against a proposed windfarm on the estate that there were no plans to corral deer and slaughter them as part of a mass cull connected with the development. 
Objectors to the 35-turbine windfarm at Gordonbush, near Brora, produced a leaflet in which they criticised the habitat management plan (HMP) of developer Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE). 
The leaflet claimed that “huge numbers of deer be drawn in from a vast .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Garforth wind farm plan: Phase one set for approval</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Stage one of a controversial wind farm scheme on land between Micklefield and Garforth looks set to get under way later this month. 
Durham-based Banks Developments won permission earlier this year for a 60-metre &#8216;monitoring mast&#8217; on green belt land at Hook Moor. 
An exact date for the structure to go up has yet to be decided – but today a spokesman for Banks said it was &#8220;likely&#8221; to be in the next couple of weeks.
Data from the mast will .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Turbines &#8212; &#39;too many, too big, too close&#39;</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Caithness village would be encircled by wind turbines if three commercial developments get the green light, it is being claimed. 
Stewart Young, of Caithness Windfarm Information Forum (CWIF), was speaking in the wake of the submission of a planning application for a wind farm at Durran Mains. 
DP Energy Ireland wants to put up 13 turbines, each with a blade-tip height of 91 metres, on farmland at the site, to the immediate west of Bower. Mr Young said the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Windfarm protestors secure council victory</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Campaigners fighting plans to build a wind farm near Market Drayton secured an important victory this week after district councillors voted against it. 
More than 300 people attended a meeting at the Grove School on Tuesday where the proposal by energy company, Nuon Renewables, was discussed. 
North Shropshire District Council’s planning committee decided by 11 votes to three to refuse them permission to go ahead. 
Before the meeting, members of Vortex (Veto on Rural Turbine Expansion) gathered outside the school .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Windfarm objection is withdrawn</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A council has withdrawn its objections to a proposed 10-turbine windfarm in a remote area of Northumberland. 
Plans to build the farm in Wandylaw, near Ellingham, were originally rejected by Berwick Council over fears it would destroy the countryside. 
But councillors have now decided they will no longer oppose the plan after the government approved a similar project at Middlemoor, near Alnwick. 
The proposal for Wandylaw must still be considered during a public inquiry. 
The energy firm RidgeWind Ltd wants .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>New plan for 23-turbine windfarm in North Lincolnshire</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Up to 23 more wind turbines could soon be towering above the rural landscapes of Bonby, Horkstow and Saxby Wold, the Telegraph can today reveal. 
Npower renewables, a leading UK developer and operator of onshore and offshore wind-power, plans to put up the giant structures at Saxby Wolds. 
People in the villages of Saxby and Bonby will be living just a mile or two away from the proposed site. 
The turbines which each measure up to 70 metres in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Prime minister gives green light to massive new windfarm in sea off Walney</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Walney&#8217;s coastline is set to undergo a radical transformation. 
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has given the go-ahead for a massive new windfarm, with turbines taller than Blackpool Tower to be built eight miles off Walney Island. 
The West of Duddon Sands Wind Farm will boast 139 turbines, some of which will be 600ft high, compared with 518ft of the famous tower. 
They will be spread between eight miles (14km) and 14 miles (23km) from the Walney coast. 
Hundreds of jobs .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/05/prime-minister-gives-green-light-to-massive-new-windfarm-in-sea-off-walney/</link>
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		<title>Wind farms for north of Lewis still on cards</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Large scale wind farms in the north of Lewis are still a possibility, it was stressed this week. 
Although on a smaller scale than the Lewis Wind Power proposal, a report carried out by Halcrow for the Scottish Government, concluded that there was potential for several projects with a total number of up to 53 turbines. 
The findings are part of a study commissioned by the Government shortly after the refusal of the LWP application and outline that there could .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Airtricity hits turbulence over UK wind farm plan</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Airtricity has hit a major setback with a proposed wind farm in Norfolk, after two landowners opted to pull out of a project to build a new 12 turbine wind farm. 
Norfolk community, preparing to fight plans for a 12-turbine wind farm, is celebrating after landowners pulled out of the scheme. 
Airtricity Development had faced strong opposition to plans for the 125m turbines in Mosseymere in Norfolk, with a local community group being formed to fight the development. 
But pressure .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/05/airtricity-hits-turbulence-over-uk-wind-farm-plan/</link>
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		<title>ThWART begins campaign against new turbines plan</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A plan to build three wind turbines in an area of outstanding natural beauty will seriously damage one of only three 360-degree panoramic Ordnance Survey viewpoints on the Island, according to campaign group ThWART (The Wight Against Rural Turbines). 
In a statement issued this week, it said the nearest turbine would be sited just 400 metres from centre of the viewpoint, and even closer to the Worsley Trail bridleway. It also highlighted, if agreed, the turbines would be situated on .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/05/thwart-begins-campaign-against-new-turbines-plan/</link>
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		<title>Storm of protest over wind farm consultants</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Council bosses have defended using thousands of pounds of taxpayers&#8217; money to employ outside consultants to evaluate a planning application for a wind farm in the ward represented by the authority&#8217;s leader. 
East Staffordshire Borough Council has already set aside £5,000 as a &#8216;contingency&#8217; against plans to build a wind farm at Bagots Park, near Abbots Bromley.
Consultants Chris Blandford Associates have been drafted in at an undisclosed cost to closely examine environmental statements submitted by applicant Airtricity.
The council&#8217;s controlling Conservative .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/05/storm-of-protest-over-wind-farm-consultants/</link>
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		<title>People power</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Angry villagers held a showdown meeting with developers of a potential wind farm overlooked by a Cheshire beauty spot. 
Renewable energy specialists Banks Developments were confronted by more than 100 protestors at a packed out Bickerton Hall chaired by Eddisbury MP Stephen O’Brien. 
Residents of the idyllic Cheshire village are furious that a 60 metre wind monitoring mast which will be erected near The Sandstone Trail near Bickerton Hill has been given approval by The Planning Inspectorate. 
Mr O’Brien is .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Anguish from wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[I write as the owner, with my wife, of one of the homes directly on the A9 at Brora. 
I object vehemently and massively to the monstrous news that Scottish and Southern Energy expect to use our road for constant heavy loads of massive wind farm equipment. The disabled especially – and I am one – and all others who live on this road, most of whom seem to be older people, should not be subjected to the mental anguish .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Scotland’s wild places must be protected</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The points made by William Thomson (Letters, September 3) about encouraging energy production at a local level are very pertinent if we are at all concerned about cutting greenhouse gas emissions. But this is not going to happen to a large enough extent while most effort and funding is currently directed towards large-scale onshore wind farm development. 
Energy conservation is the poor relation in the public debate about reducing emissions. There is no end of talk about how much good .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Huge numbers of deer would be slaughtered</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[As chairman and committee member of the Sutherland branch of the SSPCA we are horrified to learn that Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) in its draft habitat management plan for Gordonbush Estate, have recommended that huge numbers of deer from throughout East Sutherland and probably further afield be lured, through rich feeding, to the Gordonbush estate, corralled and then killed. 
It is left to the reader&#8217;s imagination to picture the panic, fear and terror these animals will endure. By their .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm plan in new storm over deer slaughter</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Gordonbush wind farm, already mired in a heated dispute with local communities over access via the A9 for construction traffic, is now facing fresh controversy. 
Animal welfare activists were horrified to learn this week that a massive slaughter of deer is planned to take place as a result of the wind farm development. 
Around 80 per cent of the deer stock on the 13,354 acre estate are set to be culled, it has emerged. 
The animals are to be .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/04/wind-farm-plan-in-new-storm-over-deer-slaughter/</link>
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		<title>What price Gordonbush&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The land affected by this monumentally inappropriate industrial development is set to dominate and face the central heart of Sutherland. 
It sprawls across ancient boundaries of clan lands, churns up a Mackay skirmishing ground, desecrates a meeting of watersheds, is an old, precarious droving way, known well as a place where the rise and fall of the burns used to leave a traveller in trouble. Viking place names abound here, innumerable archaeological sites, now known to number far more than .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>UK&#39;s top boffin: Renewables targets were &#39;a mistake&#39;</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[EU premiers were in the dark: now we all will be  
A former chief scientific advisor to the government has said that EU renewable-energy quotas will cause widespread fuel poverty. Sir David King believes that European heads of state, in agreeing the targets, may have mistaken electricity usage for total energy consumption &#8212; leading to overly ambitious and expensive goals being set. 
&#8220;If we overdo wind we are going to put up the price of electricity and that means .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>When the wind doesn&#39;t blow</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[By 2020, more than a third of Britain&#8217;s electricity will be generated by wind power, according to government plans. One problem &#8212; six out of 10 days aren&#8217;t windy enough to make sufficient power. So what happens then? 
On a clear summer&#8217;s day the Horns Rev wind farm could almost double as a tourist attraction. Watching the rows of 200 foot white steel turbines turning gently in the wind, occasionally catching the afternoon sun is beautiful, almost hypnotic. 
To see .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Cumbrian wind gains strength</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ The go ahead for one of the UK&#8217;s largest offshore wind farms to date will be announced by the Prime Minister today, in a speech to business leaders.  
The 500MW West of Duddon Sands wind farm is planned near Walney Island off the coast of Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria and will comprise of up to 139 turbines. The developers, Morecambe Wind Limited, estimate the wind farm could provide the equivalent of around 372,000 homes with clean, green electricity.  .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/04/cumbrian-wind-gains-strength/</link>
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		<title>Turbine: Total disregard for residents</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[According to the FDC web site, applications for wind turbines will be permitted subject to &#8212; 
&#8220;There being no adverse effect on neighbouring occupiers due to noise emission, visual intrusion, shadow flicker, or electronic disturbance&#8221;. 
It seems that our turbine-obsessed authority has chosen to ignore its own guidelines on turbine development for reasons one can only speculate on, such is the case regarding the Whittlesey wind turbine. 
I ask the question is it right ethically or morally, to knowingly approve .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/04/turbine-total-disregard-for-residents/</link>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wind-watch.org/news/?p=17607</guid>
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		<title>Wind farm campaigners invite residents onto site</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Campaigners against plans for wind turbines on a former opencast pit site near Chase Terrace are urging residents to take a closer look at the proposed site for themselves. 
Bleakhouse Wind Farm Action Group is opposing a planning application by energy company Harworth Power to put up three 102 metre-high turbines that would be 640 metres from the nearest homes. 
On Sunday, September 7, the group will lead a walk to the site to show local people where the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/04/wind-farm-campaigners-invite-residents-onto-site/</link>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wind-watch.org/news/?p=17606</guid>
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		<title>Anger at huge deer cull for windfarm</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Protesters fear shortage of beasts for stalking could put local jobs at risk. 
Plans for a huge deer cull before the construction of a windfarm in east Sutherland has raised concerns it could adversely affect the local economy. 
Some people living around the site fear the development’s habitat management plan (HMP) would reduce the number of deer available for stalking on local estates and therefore affect jobs in the area, and that it would adversely affect tourism.  
In April .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/04/anger-at-huge-deer-cull-for-windfarm/</link>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wind-watch.org/news/?p=17602</guid>
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		<title>Poverty fears over wind power</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Half a million people could be pushed into fuel poverty by the UK&#8217;s drive for wind power, the government&#8217;s former chief scientific adviser has said. 
Sir David King said: &#8220;If we overdo wind we are going to put up the price of electricity and that means more people will fall into the fuel poverty trap.&#8221; 
The UK has signed up to an EU agreement for 20% of power to come from renewable sources by 2020. 
Professor King told the BBC .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/04/poverty-fears-over-wind-power/</link>
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		<title>Go-ahead for Lingen wind data mast</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Wind resource data is to be collected over 12 months on the site of a proposed wind farm. 
Plans to place a temporary meteorological mast on land to the east of Llanshay Lane, Reeves Hill, have been approved by Herefordshire councillors. 
The mast will collect data in relation to a planned development of four 105-metre wind turbines, which are currently subject to a separate planning application. 
Objections were raised by residents of Reeves Hill and Stonewall. Letters asked why .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/04/go-ahead-for-lingen-wind-data-mast/</link>
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		<title>Wind turbine firm &#39;might appeal&#39;</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The firm behind rejected plans to build a windfarm on the Shropshire-Staffordshire border is considering appealing against the council decision. 
Nuon Renewables said the site near Norton-in-Hales was the ideal spot for seven 360ft (110m) wind turbines. 
North Shropshire District Council threw out the plans at a meeting on Tuesday after they had been similarly rejected by Newcastle-under-Lyme Council. 
The firm said it was &#8220;disappointed&#8221; and would study the decision carefully. 
The company has said the turbines would produce enough .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/04/wind-turbine-firm-might-appeal/</link>
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		<title>Spinning to destruction</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[David Campbell and his family were asleep in their farmhouse in Northern Ireland when the 16-foot blade from the wind turbine crashed through the roof of his home one windy night in January last year. &#8220;It was like a bomb hitting the roof,&#8221; he told the Belfast Telegraph. &#8220;It shattered the tiles and the blade disintegrated itself.&#8221; 
Campbell was not the only person to see the direct effects of a turbine failure. Just over a year later, in February, a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/04/spinning-to-destruction/</link>
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		<title>Angry shopper fears turbine &#39;gold rush&#39;</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[As angry feelings continue to grow over plans for a wind farm in North Herefordshire, moves to get a thumbs-up from shoppers in Leominster have only added fuel to the fire. 
Amid allegations that the controversial plans for a wind farm on Stonewall Hill near Lingen could lead to something of a “gold rush” in the area, there are accusations that the applicants, Bolsterstone plc, have set up information points for collecting signatures more than 20 miles away in Leominster. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/03/angry-shopper-fears-turbine-gold-rush/</link>
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		<title>Wind power: Economic insanity of the Government&#39;s renewable energy strategy</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Government&#8217;s Renewable Energy Strategy document is out for consultation until 26 September. 
This is the document that proposes that Britain&#8217;s renewable energy targets for electricity generation will be largely met by 3,000 offshore wind turbines and a further 4,000 onshore turbines.  
The Government is also in the process of establishing the new subsidy support structure to encourage investment in renewable energy, particularly, wind turbines. 
The Government&#8217;s main support mechanism for the generation of renewable electricity consists of Renewable .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/03/wind-power-economic-insanity-of-the-governments-renewable-energy-strategy/</link>
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		<title>Garstang wind turbine plan rejected</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Plans for a 127 metre-high wind turbine next to Dewlay&#8217;s cheese business off the A6 near Garstang have been rejected. 
The company wanted to boost its green credentials, being powered by energy supplied from the towering turbine, which, including its blades, would have stood almost as high as Blackpool Tower. 
But councillors, worried about the turbine&#8217;s impact on the flat Wyre countryside, have told the cheese company and its backers the project is too big and would be out of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/03/garstang-wind-turbine-plan-rejected-2/</link>
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		<title>Plans unveiled for 425ft wind farm development</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Plans to install 425ft wind turbines on farmland in North Yorkshire, which could supply energy to about 6,500 homes, have been announced. 
Novera Energy wants to build the wind farm, which is already attracting local opposition, close to the village of Bullamoor, about two miles from Northallerton. 
The project is still at an early stage, with the company planning a two-day public consultation event later this month. 
Although the exact number of turbines and their positions is yet to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/03/plans-unveiled-for-425ft-wind-farm-development/</link>
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		<title>Wind farm plans rejected</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A bid for a wind farm has been dramatically thrown out by councillors. 
Nuon UK Ltd’s plans for seven 110-metre high wind turbines at Woore on the South Cheshire border were all set to be approved after planning officers recommended the go-ahead. 
But, in front of 400 residents in a packed hall set out for 250, North Shropshire District Council’s planning and development committee last night (Tuesday), refused the application by a majority of 13-3. 
Cllr John Beckett, portfolio holder .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/03/wind-farm-plans-rejected/</link>
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		<title>Wind turbine scheme halted</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Norfolk community preparing to fight plans for a 12-turbine wind farm is celebrating after landowners pulled out of the scheme. 
Airtricity Development had faced strong opposition to plans for the 125m turbines in Mosseymere. 
After an action group was formed, two local landowners involved in the project have withdrawn. 
Fenland Citizen
3 September 2008
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				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/03/wind-turbine-scheme-halted/</link>
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		<title>Windfarm triumph for campaigners</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Proposals for seven giant wind turbines have been thrown out by councillors amid concerns they would “devastate” the landscape near Market Drayton. 
About 300 people applauded yesterday after North Shropshire District Council’s development control committee voted to refuse plans for Nuon Renewables to put the turbines on Lower Farm, Bearstone. 
Councillors said the turbines, each measuring 110m, would spoil the landscape and be detrimental to people’s wellbeing. 
About 20 members of VORTEX (Veto on Rural Turbine Expansion) were outside The .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/03/windfarm-triumph-for-campaigners/</link>
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		<title>Wind turbine proposal turned down</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Plans which would have seen seven 360ft(110m) wind turbines built have been turned down by councillors &#8212; despite having officers&#8217; backing. 
North Shropshire District Council&#8217;s planning committee said the plans for the wind farm near Norton-in-Hales were not in keeping with the local area. 
Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council refused an application over access to the proposed site, near Market Drayton. 
Nuon Renewables is expected to appeal against the decision. 
The company had said the turbines would produce enough energy to power .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/03/wind-turbine-proposal-turned-down/</link>
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		<title>Bearstone windfarm plan rejected; 300 residents applaud axing of wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Proposals to build a wind farm have been rejected after thousands of residents bombarded planners with letters of objection to the scheme. 
The controversial plans for seven wind turbines on land in Bearstone, near the Staffordshire-Shropshire border, had attracted 2,300 individual letters of opposition. 
North Shropshire District Council&#8217;s planning meeting, held last night, pulled a crowd of more than 300 people who burst into spontaneous applause and cheers when councillors voted 10 to three against the application. 
Co-ordinator of opposition .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/03/bearstone-windfarm-plan-rejected-300-residents-applaud-axing-of-wind-farm/</link>
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		<title>Ignoring what we wanted</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am writing to draw readers&#8217; attention to the bizarre game of hokey cokey played by the council’s development control committee in its recent decision-making. 
One minute, a planning application was out, then it was in again! 
I am referring to the decision in July to refuse planning permission for the Maerdy Wind Farm above Treorchy and the overturning of this decision in August. 
The July discussion occurred after the applicant and members of the public were given an opportunity .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/03/ignoring-what-we-wanted/</link>
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		<title>Storm over wind farm plan</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Residents in the Camelford area left town councillors in no doubt of what they think of a proposal for 20 wind turbines at Davidstow Woods. 
Last week Camelford Town Council staged an emergency meeting at which the public were invited to express their views on a proposal by Community Windpower Ltd for the wind turbines. 
However, town clerk Brian Groves said as yet the council had not received any formal notice of application for the turbines. 
Around 40 people attended .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/02/storm-over-wind-farm-plan/</link>
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		<title>Anti-wind farm blimp launched by campaigners</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Anti-wind farm campaigners flew a blimp over the site of a proposed wind farm near Billingborough and Pointon at the weekend. 
Members of AGAST &#8212; Action Group Against Sempringham Turbines &#8212; launched the blimp on Saturday morning. 
It flew for seven hours at around 395ft &#8212; the height of the wind turbines proposed by ScottishPower Renewables. 
AGAST Chairman Debbie Wren said: &#8220;Flying the blimp was successful in that people in the area could see what a huge impact this will .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/02/anti-wind-farm-blimp-launched-by-campaigners/</link>
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		<title>Fishermen to get bigger say on windfarms</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fishermen off north Norfolk are welcoming assurances they will get a louder voice over where the next batch of offshore windfarms will sited. 
The Crown Estate, which allocates windfarm licences, has told a national fishermen&#8217;s lobby there would be better liaison to ensure sensitive fishing areas were avoided. 
Off Norfolk, where the seas are set to take up to another 1,000 turbines in the national push for green offshore energy, the news was given a guarded welcome. 
Ivan Large, chairman .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/02/fishermen-to-get-bigger-say-on-windfarms/</link>
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		<title>Last minute appeal for wind farm bid</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A bid to build a £40 million wind farm in Midlothian has been resurrected by energy giant E.ON. 
The firm&#8217;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. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/02/last-minute-appeal-for-wind-farm-bid/</link>
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		<title>Protest as decision due on turbines</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Do you know you&#39;re backing windfarms&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/02/do-you-know-youre-backing-windfarms/</link>
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		<title>Jewel in the crown at risk</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/02/jewel-in-the-crown-at-risk/</link>
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		<title>Wind farm set for approval</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/02/wind-farm-set-for-approval/</link>
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		<title>Council clarifies its position on windfarms: no &#39;pre-determined position&#39;</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wynne Jones, Powys County Council&#8217;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 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/02/council-clarifies-its-position-on-windfarms-no-pre-determined-position/</link>
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		<title>Wind farm warriors prepare for battle</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fifteen years of phoney war is coming to an end in the fight for the future of an area described as &#8220;West Glamorgan&#8217;s last wilderness&#8221;. 
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: &#8220;It will be completely devastating for the upland area of Mynydd-y-Gwair. The infrastructure put .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/01/wind-farm-warriors-prepare-for-battle/</link>
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		<title>Celebrity opposition to wind plan</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/01/celebrity-opposition-to-wind-plan/</link>
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		<title>Councils’ views set to be blown away</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/01/councils%e2%80%99-views-set-to-be-blown-away/</link>
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