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		<title>Windfarms: An ill wind of change?</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/windfarms-an-ill-wind-of-change/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Less than a week ago 106 mostly Conservative MPs wrote to the Prime Minister, urging cuts in public subsidies to UK windfarms, on the grounds that these towering turbines were neither efficient to run nor pleasing on the eye. Yet today sees the opening, in Cumbria, of the world’s biggest-ever windfarm, the switch-on to be performed by Ed Davey, the new man in charge of energy and climate change (his predecessor Chris Huhne having temporarily pulled the plug on his .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Controversial Palgrave wind turbine shut down</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A controversial village wind turbine has been shut down while a long-term solution is found to problems with noise from the rotor blades – which neighbours say is keeping them awake at night and causing health problems. The Palgrave Community Centre committee has switched off the 24m turbine on the edge of the village playing fields after villagers in Lows Lane, the Green and Upper Rose Lane complained they could not sleep due to the “whirring” sound which was causing .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Saxby Wold wind turbines plan refused by councillors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Controversial plans for wind turbines in a rural area of North Lincolnshire were turned down by councillors meeting in Scunthorpe this afternoon. RWE npower renewables Ltd was refused permission to construct 16 wind turbines and associated infrastructure. The development, on land to the west of Brigg Road, Horkstow, was turned down by North Lincolnshire Council’s planning committee. The proposed site is close to the Viking Way – a major public right of way. The company has the right of appeal .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Renewables report a blueprint for ignoring communities, says MEP</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Today’s release by the Scottish Government of a blueprint to streamline the scoping, planning and consenting of offshore renewables developments is yet more bad news for Scotland’s coastal communities and businesses, Scottish Conservative MEP Struan Stevenson has said. The report, prepared by a task force comprising government agencies and renewable developers, sets out a number of recommendations to speed up the whole-sale development of off-shore wind farms. Although it recommends that, &#8220;Developers and regulators should use a mandatory multilateral pre-application .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Mother&#8217;s plea to wind farm public inquiry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A mother asked a planning inspector to throw out applications for two wind farms as the Norfolk countryside is helping her son to adjust to life in this country. Kathy Chalk told a public inquiry into two wind farms near Stanhoe and Syderstone, that her family had recently moved to South Creake from Hong Kong and the wildlife seen on their school runs help to distract her 10-year-old son. On Friday, Mrs Chalk made an impassioned speech to inspector Robert .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Calls for research on wind turbines impact on Northumberland tourism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A study should be carried out into the potential impacts of the growing number of wind farms being approved in Northumberland on the county’s vital tourism industry, it is claimed. County councillor Wayne Daley says the huge importance of the visitor industry means a detailed local assessment is needed on whether tourists and their spending power will be affected by scores of huge turbines going up in the next few years. His call for local research to be commissioned on .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Bid to extend wind farm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/bid-to-extend-wind-farm/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Proposals to extend the second-largest wind farm in the UK by 11 turbines go on display at two public exhibitions. Crystal Rig wind farm, about seven miles south of Dunbar in the Lammermuirs Hills, currently operates with 85 wind turbines (25 turbines of phase I and Ia, and 60 of phase II and IIa) giving it a capacity of 200.5 megawatts. The proposed phase III extension for 11 new turbines would be located on the northern side of Crystal Rig .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Complaints flood in over noise from offshore wind farm work</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/complaints-flood-in-over-noise-from-offshore-wind-farm-work/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A constant banging noise from work to build Redcar’s offshore wind farm gave locals a right ear-bashing. The noisy pounding went on from mid-afternoon on Monday and didn’t stop until after 9pm the same day, prompting a flood of complaints from residents. It was all quiet yesterday, but locals were still shell-shocked from the din the day before. Now the firm behind the wind farm, EDF Energy, has apologised and pledged to try to pipe down when it can. Shocked .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>MP calls on PM to cut wind turbine subsidies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Uttoxeter&#8217;s MP has called on the Prime Minister to cut subsidies for wind turbines which are encouraging energy companies to pursue plans for land in East Staffordshire. Andrew Griffiths is among more than 100 Conservative MPs who have written to David Cameron urging him to cut the £400 million a year subsidies. They also want planning rules changed to make it easier for local people to object to their construction. Mr Griffiths is joined by fellow Tory Bill Cash, who .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Neolithic find &#8216;outside Mynydd y Betws wind site&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/neolithic-find-outside-mynydd-y-betws-wind-site/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Most of the newly-discovered neolithic stone row at Mynydd y Betws falls outside construction work on the multi-million pound windfarm, according to county council chiefs. But officers say around five metres of the stone alignment will be dest-royed by the access road. They were responding to claims by one of the UK’s leading heritage lawexperts that work on the 15-turbine windfarm should stop. Peter Alexander- Fitzgerald of Rescue – The British Archaelogical Trust – wants a full survey of the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Donald Trump claims &#8216;hideous and noisy&#8217; windfarms will make Scotland a laughing stock</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/donald-trump-claims-hideous-and-noisy-windfarms-will-make-scotland-a-laughing-stock/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump has claimed an increasing proliferation of windfarms will make Scotland the &#8221;laughing stock&#8221; of the world. In a strongly worded tirade against Alex Salmond&#8217;s renewable energy ambitions, the US billionaire also suggested the policy could threaten the prospect of Scottish independence. The row came after Mr Trump said plans for a windfarm have forced him to put development of a £750 million golf resort on the Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire on hold. The new comments are his most .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Burnham wind farm debate heats up as both sides announce meetings</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/burnham-wind-farm-debate-heats-up-as-both-sides-announce-meetings/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A series of meetings regarding the controversial plans for the Pilrow wind farm near Burnham-On-Sea will be held later this month by protesters and the developers of the scheme. Broadview Energy, the firm behind plans to build the four 130m tall turbines next to Rooksbridge, will be holding its own series of public exhibitions when residents will be able to view the proposals. Broadview&#8217;s exhibitions will be held on Monday 20th February in Mark Village Hall from 9.30am to 1.30pm .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Huff and puff of wind farm critics falls on deaf ears</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/huff-and-puff-of-wind-farm-critics-falls-on-deaf-ears/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not quite a case of biting the hand that feeds; after all Alex Salmond and his ministers played the Donald Trump application for that golf course in Aberdeenshire strictly by the book, didn’t they? Still, the fuss that the American businessman is making over an offshore wind farm that, presumably on a clear day, could be seen from his fairways and hotel must be a bit of a surprise, to say the least, for our SNP masters. He’s made .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Turbine plan rejected</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/turbine-plan-rejected/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[An appeal has been lodged after controversial plans that could lead to eight wind turbines being put up were rejected by planners. Cherwell District Council rejected the plan for a 60-metre high wind monitoring mast north of Hanwell, near Banbury, in December. It said the plan was “intrusive”, the developer had not shown wildlife would be protected and it posed a risk to planes from Shotteswell Airfield. Energy firm Regenco wants the mast to test whether the site is suitable .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>On the path to a dark, silent forest of spruce</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/on-the-path-to-a-dark-silent-forest-of-spruce/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Caithness has few really good paths. There are plenty of rather boring forest tracks and roads, but if you want a good long walk you have to be prepared to read a map, cross pathless country and tackle obstacles such as ditches and wet ground. There are plenty of places where good, signposted paths could be made but in general there has been neither the will nor the money to do it. A piece on the radio about walking old .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Community fund for windfarm locals</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/community-fund-for-windfarm-locals/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Developers behind the Harbourcross wind farm proposal are offering a potential community fund to those who would be affected by the development. Wind Ventures are hoping to install five wind turbines to the north east of Meddon, which are estimated to generate enough renewable energy to power up to 5,500 homes. But Ross Glover, managing director of Wind Ventures, explained that community engagement is crucial to the development, despite protests from anti-windfarm campaigners. He said: “This is why we have .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Is your money blowing in the wind?</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/07/is-your-money-blowing-in-the-wind/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Wind turbines have become a familiar sight in the Scottish landscape. From the centre of Glasgow, the Whitelee Windfarm at the southern edge of the city can clearly be seen. Wind farms have been promoted as a cental plank in the renewables energy policy which will allegedly revitalise the Scottish economy and save the planet. But how much of a contribution do the turbines make to the energy needs of the nation? And how much does it cost when the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Dorset MPs back campaign for wind farm rethink</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/07/dorset-mps-back-campaign-for-wind-farm-rethink/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Dorset MPs have backed a campaign by their colleagues asking the Government to reconsider its support for wind farms. More than 100 Conservative backbenchers are rebelling against Downing Street’s backing of onshore turbines, along with a handful of Lib Dem and Labour members. Dorset MPs Robert Syms, Bob Walter, Chris Chope and Richard Drax have all signed the letter. Bournemouth MPs Conor Burns and Tobias Ellwood are unable to do so, as they hold positions as Parliamentary Private Secretaries. But .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Subsidy cuts could pull the plug on community green energy schemes</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/07/subsidy-cuts-could-pull-the-plug-on-community-green-energy-schemes/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Community scale green energy projects could be put out of business by Scottish Government plans to slash subsidy support for onshore wind and hydro schemes, the SNP has been warned. Under current proposals, subsidy levels for hydro schemes would be cut by half and for onshore wind projects by a tenth, so funds can be diverted to newer forms of renewable technology, such as wave and tidal projects. Dozens of small-scale community-owned wind and hydro schemes are springing up, generating .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Northamptonshire MP leads bid against wind farm subsidies</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/07/northamptonshire-mp-leads-bid-against-wind-farm-subsidies/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[More than 100 MPs have signed a letter urging the Prime Minister to slash subsidies given to wind farm developers. Conservative MP for Daventry, Chris Heaton-Harris, believes a cut would dramatically reduce the high volume of wind farm applications in Northamptonshire. Mr Heaton-Harris’s letter, which has been signed by 106 MPs, including 101 Conservatives, also put pressure on David Cameron to give local people more influence to stop developments being built. He said concern over wind farms was one of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Brighton to Newhaven wind farm plans revealed</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/brighton-to-newhaven-wind-farm-plans-revealed/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Energy company E.ON is today (February 6) unveiling its plans for between 100 and 195 wind turbines eight miles out to sea off the coast between Brighton and Newhaven. The wind farm would generate enough energy to power more than two out of every three homes in Sussex, including the whole of Brighton and Hove. It would be one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world. The development has been broadly welcomed by MPs, councillors and environmental groups. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Full letter from MPs to David Cameron on wind power subsidies</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/full-letter-from-mps-to-david-cameron-on-wind-power-subsidies/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[More than 100 MPs have written to the Prime Minister demanding cuts to the £500 million a year subsidies paid to the wind power industry. The Prime Minister 10 Downing Street LONDON, SW1A 2AA As Members of Parliament from across the political spectrum, we have grown more and more concerned about the Government’s policy of support for on-shore wind energy production. In these financially straightened times, we think it is unwise to make consumers pay, through taxpayer subsidy, for inefficient .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>100 Tories call for wind-farm subsidy cuts</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/100-tories-call-for-wind-farm-subsidy-cuts/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Scottish Government has launched a robust defence of its flagship green energy policy after concerns were raised by more than 100 Tory politicians about the cost of subsidies paid for onshore wind farms. The MPS called for a dramatic cut to subsidies in a revolt against government policy, as they expressed serious concerns over the level of taxpayers’ money going to the sector. Campaigners against wind farms in Scotland yesterday added their voices to the calls for subsidies to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Trouble in the air: 101 Tories write to the PM in rebellion over wind farms</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/trouble-in-the-air-101-tories-write-to-the-pm-in-rebellion-over-wind-farms/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[More than 100 Conservative MPs are mounting a rebellion over the Government’s plan to introduce more wind farms. Dozens of backbench Tories have written to David Cameron to demand that the £400million in subsidies paid to the ‘inefficient’ industry each year is ‘dramatically cut’. They are also pressing for a change to planning laws to make it easier for communities to block proposals relating to the unsightly turbines. The protest presents an immediate challenge for the new Liberal Democrat Climate .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power: why the MPs have written to the Prime Minister</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/wind-power-why-the-mps-have-written-to-the-prime-minister/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[What is current government policy on wind farms? The Coalition government &#8211; just like the Labour government before it &#8211; is convinced wind farms are the future. The UK is one of the windiest places in western Europe and that is a resource the government is determined to exploit. Onshore and offshore turbines are actively encouraged in order to help meet strict carbon emissions targets. By 2020, 40 per cent of all UK electricity should come from &#8216;low carbon&#8217; sources, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Turbine trouble</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[It is grimly appropriate that the Conservative MPs’ rebellion over onshore wind power, which has landed, in the form of a letter, on the desk of new Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey, has coincided with the onset of Britain’s big freeze. For it is, of course, at times of very cold weather that the extra electricity provided by wind turbines is most needed. Yet it is also at such times that these machines are at their most useless, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Offshore turbines &#8216;will pose a threat to nuclear subs fleet&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/offshore-turbines-will-pose-a-threat-to-nuclear-subs-fleet/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Defence chiefs have warned that Britain’s nuclear submarine fleet could be under threat from plans to erect hundreds of wind farms off the west coast of Scotland. They say the developments could hamper access to the Trident base on the Clyde and increase the risk of subs running aground or colliding with other vessels. Reports yesterday quoted a senior defence source as saying: “There is no doubt that these fields would be an additional hazard to shipping. The rotating blades .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Firm abandons forest wind turbines plans</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/firm-abandons-forest-wind-turbines-plans/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A wind power firm has scrapped plans to build four 115m turbines near Hamsterley Forest because of ‘environmental’ concerns. Since 2009, two companies have outlined separate plans to build wind farms at Crake Scar, which is also known as Windy Bank. In 2009, Bolsterstone Innovative Energy submitted initial proposals. Soon afterwards, County Durham firm Banks Renewables revealed it wanted to erect turbines in a nearby field. Since then, a war of words has raged between Banks Renewables and wind farm .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Rebel Tory MPs demand cut in onshore wind farm subsidies</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/rebel-tory-mps-demand-cut-in-onshore-wind-farm-subsidies/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A string of Yorkshire’s Tory MPs are among more than 100 party backbenchers who have written to David Cameron calling for a dramatic cut in subsidies to onshore wind farms and a chance for local people to have greater power to block future developments. In what represents a major revolt against Government policy by around a third of the Conservative Parliamentary party, rebel Tories have joined forces with a handful of politicians from other parties to express concern over the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Kilgallioch Forest wind farm plans revised</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/kilgallioch-forest-wind-farm-plans-revised/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Revised plans for a major wind farm development in Wigtownshire have been submitted to the Scottish government. Scottish Power Renewables had previously applied to construct 132 turbines at a site in Kilgallioch Forest near New Luce. However, the energy company has now scaled back the proposed development to 99 turbines. The project site sits on the border between Dumfries and Galloway and South Ayrshire. Initial plans were submitted two years ago and, at the time, it would have been one .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>New energy secretary confirms green targets</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/new-energy-secretary-confirms-green-targets/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Newly-appointed Energy and Climate Change Secretary Edward Davey on Monday confirmed the country&#8217;s commitment to its green energy targets and its focus on growing the offshore wind power generation capacities. &#8220;There may have been a change at the helm, but there&#8217;ll be no change in direction or ambition,&#8221; he said at the Building Research Establishment&#8217;s Innovation Park near Watford . &#8220;My priorities are very simple: green jobs, green growth and getting the best deal for energy bill payers.&#8221; Davey&#8217;s predecessor .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Report noise from turbine</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/report-noise-from-turbine/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Dereck Wade is not alone in reporting Glyndebourne turbine noise problems (‘Celebrity launch for wind turbine’, January 20). There are other unsolicited, independent, credible reports. Some relate to Sunday, January 15, when people were in their gardens during the first period of reasonable weather since commissioning. However, problems are not associated with a single wind direction and seem to include all those from SE to SW. On turbine ‘launch’ day Mr Christie, Glyndebourne’s chief executive, explained on Radio Sussex that .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Welsh MP Alun Cairns urges cut in wind farm subsidy</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/welsh-mp-alun-cairns-urges-cut-in-wind-farm-subsidy/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A south Wales MP says wind farms are inefficient and he has joined over 100 fellow Conservatives to urge a cut in tax subsidies for onshore turbines. Vale of Glamorgan MP Alun Cairns told BBC&#8217;s Sunday Politics they are too expensive. The MPs are also asking Prime Minister David Cameron to change planning rules to make it easier for local people to object to their construction. The UK government said wind farms were &#8220;cost-effective and valuable&#8221;. Mr Cairns said: &#8220;My .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm subsidy cut urged by MPs</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/wind-farm-subsidy-cut-urged-by-mps/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[More than 100 Conservative MPs have written to the prime minister urging him to cut subsidies for wind turbines. They also want planning rules changed to make it easier for local people to object to their construction. The Tory MPs &#8211; joined by some backbenchers from other parties &#8211; questions the amount of money going to the sector during &#8220;straitened times&#8221;. But the government said wind farms were a &#8220;cost-effective and valuable part of the UK&#8217;s diverse energy mix&#8221;. The .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative minister in local wind farm fight</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/conservative-minister-in-local-wind-farm-fight/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A Conservative minister has fought a two-year battle against a wind farm in his own constituency. Alistair Burt, a Foreign Office minister, has publicly opposed proposals for 16 turbines next to a village in his North East Bedfordshire constituency. But he was left “disappointed” when a government planning inspector ruled that “regional and national targets” for renewable energy “outweighed” the impact the 360ft high turbines would have on local residents in Langford. Mr Burt said: “I am very disappointed with .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm plan for moorland above Burnley and Bacup</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/wind-farm-plan-for-moorland-above-burnley-and-bacup/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Controversial plans for 125-metre high wind turbines on East Lancashire moorland have infuriated neighbours. Proposals have been drawn up for another wind farm, by Kelda Power, on the moors between Burnley, Bacup and Todmorden. Campaigners claim the South Pennines is falling victim to a ‘wind rush’, with the extension of the giant Scout Moor site and possible expansion of the Coal Clough development at Cliviger. Coronation Power also secured planning permission for a three-turbine farm at Reaps Moss and a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Rural communities are being torn apart by wind farms&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/rural-communities-are-being-torn-apart-by-wind-farms/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Wind farm developers are being encouraged by the Scottish Government to offer “community benefits” – some might say bribes – to local communities when submitting planning applications. Communities are being invited to negotiate “benefits” with developers in advance of planning decisions. This is a threat to the impartiality of our planning system. Rural communities in the Borders are already being torn apart by wind farms. As developers rush to make substantial financial gain, often with scant regard for the impact .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Luxury hotel raises a storm over Kenly windfarm plans</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/luxury-hotel-raises-a-storm-over-kenly-windfarm-plans/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The owners of the luxury Old Course Hotel, Golf Resort and Spa in St Andrews have expressed a “fundamental concern” over plans for a windfarm at Kenly Farm, near Boarhills. St Andrews University has lodged an application for a six-turbine, 12.3 megawatt facility at the site, a few miles south of St Andrews, which is a major component of its strategy to offset rising energy costs. However, the American owners of the five-star hotel complex claim it will threaten the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>MoD enters battle against 150ft coastal wind turbine scheme</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/mod-enters-battle-against-150ft-coastal-wind-turbine-scheme/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Plans to install what would be the highest wind turbine on the Yorkshire Wolds would weaken Britain’s defence against enemy aircraft, the Ministry of Defence has warned. The MoD is objecting to proposals to erect a 150ft turbine at Cliff Lane in Bempton, one of three planned for the village which are all facing stiff opposition from residents. But it is the Cliff Lane turbine, which would supply electricity to a pig unit at Norway Farm, which is causing the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Barwick and Syderstone: Wind farms would be &#8216;detrimental&#8217; inquiry told</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/barwick-and-syderstone-wind-farms-would-be-detrimental-inquiry-told/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A public inquiry on two proposed wind farms opened this week. Planning inspector Robert Mellor heard statements from E.On and Renewable Energy Systems (RES) UK and Ireland as they try to over-turn West Norfolk Council’s decision to refuse permission to put up turbines close to an Iron Age fort. RES wants to build six 126.5m turbines on a site at Jack’s Lane, Barwick, near Stanhoe. E.On hopes to put up five 100m turbines on land at Chiplow, near Syderstone. Mr .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm could cost 500 jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The wind farm proposed off the coast of Bournemouth and Poole could cost 500 jobs in Dorset’s tourism sector. Mark Smith, head of tourism for Bournemouth, gave the figure on Friday as councillors took evidence on the effect of the turbines on visitors. Mr Smith said research in Scotland showed 2-3 per cent of visitors would not return to an area with a wind farm. He said: “If you are considering an industry which employs in Dorset something like 18,000 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Questions concerning Little Raith Wind Farm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/questions-concerning-little-raith-wind-farm/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[We had a meeting with the developer of Little Raith Wind Farm (Kennedy Renewables) and their PR/Political Lobbying group (Invicta PA) back in October. Unfortunately, most of our questions couldn’t be answered at the time, but the developer took note of the issues and concerns raised, and notified us they will get back to us regarding our queries, and could we also include our concerns in writing. We contacted the developers and the four Community Councils on the 27th January .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>MoD&#8217;s concerns over wind farms</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/mods-concerns-over-wind-farms/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Defence chiefs have raised concerns that the country&#8217;s nuclear submarine fleet could be put at risk by Scotland&#8217;s offshore wind farm scheme. Plans to erect hundreds of wind turbines off the west coast sparked fears over the safety of nuclear submarines operating out of Faslane Naval Base after MoD sources described the plans as &#8220;hazardous&#8221;. They warned offshore renewable developments could hamper access to the Clyde&#8217;s Trident base, as well as increase the risk of submarines running aground or colliding. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>MPs demand changes to wind policy</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/mps-demand-changes-to-wind-policy/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Staffordshire MPs are calling for a drastic cut in the subsidies paid to onshore wind farms, and for communities to be given more power to stop the developments. Karen Bradley, who represents Staffordshire Moorlands, Stafford&#8217;s Jeremy Lefroy, Stone&#8217;s Bill Cash, and Andrew Griffiths, whose Burton constituency covers the Uttoxeter area, are among 101 Conservative MPs to sign a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron, raising concerns over the level of taxpayers&#8217; money going into the sector. The Tory backbenchers claim .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind 101: Tory MPs pressure Cameron over renewable energy</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/05/wind-101-tory-mps-pressure-cameron-over-renewable-energy/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Nearly a third of Conservative MPs are demanding the coalition retreat from its commitment to onshore wind energy subsidies. Backbencher Chris Heaton-Harris, who organised the letter, secured the signatures of 101 Tory MPs, together with a handful of other backbenchers, for the letter to David Cameron attacking the government&#8217;s renewable energy policy. &#8220;We have grown more and more concerned about the government&#8217;s policy of support for on-shore wind energy production,&#8221; the letter states. &#8220;In these financially straightened times, we think .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Chris Huhne&#8217;s successor faces clash as Tories attack wind farms spending</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/04/chris-huhnes-successor-faces-clash-as-tories-attack-wind-farms-spending/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The challenge facing the new Liberal Democrat energy secretary, Ed Davey, has been laid bare by the revelation that 101 Tory MPs are demanding drastic cuts to the £400m-a-year government subsidies for wind farms. The demands from Conservative MPs, made in a letter to David Cameron, came as a former Liberal Democrat leader, Menzies Campbell, warned that there would be serious trouble from his party&#8217;s activists if there was any rowing back from the coalition&#8217;s commitment to run the &#8220;greenest .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>101 Tories revolt over wind farms</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/04/100-tories-revolt-over-wind-farms/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[David Cameron has been hit by a major protest by Conservative MPs over the Government’s backing for wind farms, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose. A total of 101 Tory MPs have written to the Prime Minister demanding that the £400 million-a-year subsidies paid to the “inefficient” onshore wind turbine industry are “dramatically cut”. The backbenchers, joined by some MPs from other parties, have also called on Mr Cameron to tighten up planning laws so local people have a better chance .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Windfarm developer &#8216;sorry for confusion&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/04/windfarm-developer-sorry-for-confusion/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The firm behind controversial plans for a windfarm in the Howe of Fife has apologised to local people amid confusion about the level of financial benefits the community would receive should the plans go ahead. West Coast Energy has scaled down its application for a windfarm at Clatto Hill in Devon Wood and is now seeking permission to erect five turbines at a height of 115m each instead of the seven 121m turbines that were originally proposed. That means that .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Villagers warn plans bad for environment</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/04/villagers-warn-plans-bad-for-environment/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Villagers fighting to stop a wind turbine going up near their homes have launched a poster campaign. Campaigners in Adderley, near Market Drayton, claim the plans for a 55kw turbine, which would be 150ft tall to the blade tip, on land at Bawhill Farm would be an eyesore and could see house prices tumble. Campaigner Paul Shepley said residents were concerned at the impact the turbine could have because of its proximity to homes. The farmer behind the plans, Stephen .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Call for immediate end to Ochils windfarms</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/04/call-for-immediate-end-to-ochils-windfarms/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A call has been made for an immediate moratorium on windfarms in the Ochil hills due to the &#8221;cavalier, duplicitous and philistine&#8221; approach of major power firms towards the area. With the prospect of another 18 turbines before Perth and Kinross Council planners, Councillor Mike Barnacle has made an impassioned plea for a halt to the &#8221;industrialisation&#8221; of the hills. His call comes as energy firm Wind Prospect tries to enlarge its Burnfoot windfarm, near two others which were passed .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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