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		<title>Windfarm protesters call for tax cuts</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Campaigners are calling for a cut in council tax for homes blighted by wind farms in Mid Wales. They claim new plans will devalue their homes.
They say plans to build hundreds of turbines across Powys - many approaching the height of Blackpool Tower - will wipe thousands of pounds off the value of nearby homes.
They now want to see reduced council tax bills for all homes within three miles of any windfarm.
Shropshire Star
7 August 2008
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		<title>Major power lines could go through Powys</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mid Wales has to face up to the possibility of a major 400kv steel power line according to a Powys County Councillor.
Powys County Councillor, Wynne Jones, portfolio holder with responsibility for regeneration and development, said Mid Wales electricity network would need upgrading if the majority of 19 possible windfarm sites identified by the Welsh Assembly Government document TAN 08 are given the go ahead.
A Spokesman for National Grid also confirmed it is looking at the possibility of a 400kv line .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Turnaround for wind farm bid</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A political U-turn has seen councillors grant permission to extend a wind farm near Brynna with bigger turbines.
Rhondda Cynon Taf’s development control committee passed plans by Denbighshire wind farm developer Tegni Cymru last Thursday, despite refusing an identical application in March.
It will allow 11 wind turbines to be sited on land at Mynydd Portref, where there are already 20 wind turbines manufactured by Nordtank A/S of Denmark.
When fully operational, the wind farm can produce enough electricity to power 5,729 homes .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>They don&#39;t care about us</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ It is obvious now, that with Government ministers planning to build 4,000 more onshore wind turbines across the countryside, they care nothing about safeguarding basic human rights.
They are putting all their efforts into achieving some stupid ideological goal which is unachievable. More and more information is coming through about people&#8217;s lives being ruined by the noise of these massive new machines, causing them health problems and rendering their homes practically worthless.
And most worrying is the fact campaigners fear ministers .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farms get subsidies</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>31 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Currently, the UK Government is looking at ways to curb the outrageous profit making of the UK energy companies taking advantage of the hike in gas and oil prices.An article (Post, July 26) reported that, according to Environment Agency Wales, greenhouse gas emissions in the Welsh energy sector have reduced by 30 per cent over the past 10 years. Another article in the above edition reported that the energy company Npower was once again trying to get planning permission .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Turbines not the answer</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[One fact rarely advertised by the wind industry when they are talking about saving CO² emissions is that the UK power industry only amounts to 20 per cent of the UK total emissions!
Now I wonder why that is - theoretically if we covered every inch of the UK mainland and surrounding shores with monstrous wind generators there would still be 80 per cent of emissions to account for and deal with?
Remembering that with all these wind generators there would be .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Storm blows up over wind farm plans</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Strong opposition to a wind farm in Brechfa was voiced by councillors at a recent meeting.
They said a wind farm would devastate the countryside and tourism in the area.
Councillors raised fears before receiving a guidance document on how to deal with wind farm applications.
The guidance was given ahead of expected wind farm development in Brechfa.
County councillor for Llanfihangel ar Arth, Linda Evans, was particularly concerned.
&#8220;A wind farm would be devastating for the area. Brechfa attracts a lot of tourists .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Monstrous plan</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Duke of Beaufort’s Badminton estate in the Cotswolds covers a larger area than Gower.
The same aristocrat owns Mynydd y Gwair, north of Swansea. The grassy hill land is farmed by Welsh tenant farmers who have been there for generations.
The Duke does not have a single wind turbine anywhere on his Cotswold estate, nor has he applied for any!
Yet he wants to erect dozens of gigantic 400ft wind monsters on Mynydd y Gwair, in complete opposition to the wishes of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Turbine snap is misleading</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Npower has sent leaflets to around 22,000 homes informing people of its plans to build Britain&#8217;s biggest wind farm on Mynydd y Gwair.
The developer of the scheme wrote: &#8220;Following feedback from local communities during the consultation process . . .&#8221; I have no idea which feedback she refers to as the three local polls held in the community &#8212; one of which was funded by the Assembly &#8212; all gave a resounding no to npower, as did the West .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>A blot of turbines: The rush for more green energy via wind farms risks sacrificing our most beautiful landscapes</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Those of us who support the government&#8217;s determination to lower CO2 emissions, yet care passionately about preserving our most beautiful landscapes, are in a serious quandary. Labour has turned to offshore wind farms as the most productive way of harvesting nature&#8217;s own supply of energy. Sadly, we are not capable of realising anything like the goal of 7,000 offshore turbines in the near future. So pressure is being applied to nod through 4,000 onshore. Objectors to complex applications running to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>We&#39;ll blow out bid for huge wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Campaigners fighting a controversial wind farm insist they will win over the hearts and minds of locals, following an energy firm&#8217;s publicity drive.
Npower has sent out thousands of leaflets to homes in the Pontarddulais area, explaining how turbines on Mynydd-y-Gwair would ease Britain&#8217;s energy crisis.
But protest group Save Our Common Mountain Environment (Socme) are planning to storm letterboxes with their own leaflets.
They argue the &#8220;400ft monsters&#8221; will damage a long-established beauty spot.
Glyn Morgan, Socme chairman and local farmer, said:
&#8220;It is .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Concern over wind farm policy</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Carmarthenshire County Council has adopted a new policy setting out detailed guidance for granting consent for wind farm developments, but the detail of the policy was challenged by Cllr Linda Evans at the meeting of the council.
Cllr Evans, the Plaid member for the Pencader/ Llanfihangel ar arth area, raised a series of concerns about the new policy.
She said this week, &#8220;It seems to me that the new policy makes it easier to add more land to the original area .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power is not safe</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ On the eve of the last Assembly election, Plaid AM Helen Mary Jones personally assured me that if Plaid got into office they would impose a moratorium on wind power in Wales.As a result of this promise, I voted Plaid.
In January 2007 in Ireland, during high wind, a wind turbine blade broke off and smashed through the roof of a farmhouse with the family asleep inside.
Apparently, 11 defective wind turbines had been installed on farms in Northern Ireland.
In February .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Residents facing fight to block 19 wind turbine bid</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Pontarddulais residents could have one of the biggest wind farms in Britain on their doorstep.Thousands of leaflets have been distributed to homeowners giving details of the plans by npower to site 19 wind turbines on an area covering nearly 1,200 acres on top of Mynydd-y-Gwair.
The leaflets, which are landing on around 22,000 front door mats in the Pontarddulais and Mawr areas, are the latest round in a long-running battle between the power company and campaigners.
Councillor Ioan Richard, who represents .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#39;t take my word for it</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Have the lunatics actually been let out of the asylum?What an abomination even to consider putting wind generators on this beautiful landscape.
I cannot stress enough that wind generation is the &#8220;basket case&#8221; of all renewables, and if there is any evidence at all to challenge this statement I would be very interested in hearing it . . . but I will not hold my breath, as they say.
I have worked at fossil-fuelled, hydro and nuclear power stations, and as .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm is just madness</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have just read the expensive propaganda leaflet sent by npower that we paid for out of our electricity bills, that are already too high.
I noticed that the enormous wind towers proposed for Mynydd-y-Gwair will be far too close to a major roadway and almost immediate to the main source of water for Swansea. The destruction of the landscape will shovel all our heritage into the main watercourses of Swansea, right into the Lliw Reservoir.
A few pitiful bales of hay .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Brechfa</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Guidance is being issued by Carmarthenshire planners ahead of expected applications to develop wind farms in the Brechfa Forest area.
Today’s (Friday) meeting of the full council approved supplementary planning guidance on the issue.
Members discussed a report prepared by the Council’s Planning Services Section to help handle applications for major wind farm developments.
The issues considered in the guidance include the impact of wind farms on the landscape.
The Brechfa Forest area has been identified by the Welsh Assembly Government as an area .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Bronze age site windfarm fears: megalithic objection</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A megalithic objection to the planned windfarm development at Llanbadarn Fynydd could be in store.
The County Times can reveal the proposed site is understood to clash with what scientists believe to be a &#8220;megalithic&#8221; site of ancient sacred significance.
Concrete details are scarce on the ground at the moment, as the site is undergoing extensive research, however certain information has been leaked to us which reveals the location could be home to the largest Bronze Age cemetery in Wales.
Researchers believe the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Open letter aims to influence minister</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ An open letter, co-signed by more than 50 people of influence in Wales has been sent to the First Minister Rhodri Morgan AM, asking him to reconsider his Government&#8217;s policy on wind power in Wales. We approached a small number of influential people reflecting a broad sphere of public interest across Wales.
Iolo Williams, the broadcaster and presenter, has agreed to be the first co-signatory and is joined by others such as Sian Lloyd, Ffion Hague, Lord Carlile and The .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Leaflet blitz to back wind farm scheme</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Thousands of leaflets giving details of plans to build one of Britain&#8217;s biggest wind farms in the north of Swansea have been sent to residents.The plans, by energy company npower, would see 19 massive wind turbines on top of Mynydd-y-Gwair, with a construction site covering nearly 1,200 acres.
The largest of the proposed turbines would stand 127 metres to the tip of the blades &#8212; double the height of Nelson&#8217;s Column.
The leaflets, which are landing on around 22,000 front door .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Residents rejoice as council reject plans for new wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Plans for eight giant wind turbines in Maerdy have been rejected by councillors.
Rhondda Cynon Taf planning officers had recommended the council approve the proposals.
But the plans, submitted by the Wiltshire-based Renewable Energy Partnerships, were rejected by a majority of the council’s planning committee.
The application called for eight new turbines, some as high as Big Ben, between Maerdy coal tip and Tynewydd Forest.
Linda Clarke, from Treorchy, has campaigned against the wind farms for two years.
Speaking after the Development Control meeting held .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind developers warn of &#34;two tier&#34; planning system</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Welsh wind industry has warned of a &#8220;two tier&#8221; planning system that would see smaller renewable energy projects running into difficulties, while the process is improved for large installations.
Under the government&#8217;s Planning Bill, currently moving through the House of Lords, the final planning decision will be taken by a panel of independent experts called the Infrastructure Planning Commission.
This would be instead of the Secretary of State for industry taking the decision under the Electricity Act.
But, smaller projects could see .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome for E.On windfarm decision</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[E.ON has withdrawn from the eight turbine windfarm planned for Ferndale.
The project was jointly developed with the Arts Factory and was originally given planning permission in 2005.
The company halted plans after it feared that the project’s original design could potentially cause a noise nuisance to nearby homes.
But although E.ON has withdrawn from the project, other developers may carry on the project working with the Arts Factory.
Danny Shaw, head of new business for E.ON, said: “We certainly didn’t take this decision .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Half of Wales is in danger</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ I thank Grafton Maggs for his compliments on my qualification to comment on and technically analyse the onshore wind farm subject (Have Your Say, July 2).
I can assure Mr Maggs he is being taken in by the pro-wind farm industry myth about wind power. They always quote wind turbines as able to supply so many thousand homes with electricity. Without exception, they fail to remind the reader that when the wind is not blowing at the right speed those .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Storm blows up over turbine bid</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Love them or loathe them, wind farms are never far from the headlines.
Now controversy has blown up again in the wake of Prime Minister Gordon Brown&#8217;s plans to have thousands more turbines built across the UK over the coming decade.
And nowhere is the debate being more closely followed than in Neath Port Talbot, as well as parts of the Swansea and Amman valleys, which seem destined to become the wind farm capital of Wales.
There was outcry over Assembly planning guidelines .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Concern mounts over wind farms</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Concerns are growing along the Welsh border among those who are pledged to fight against controversial wind farm plans.
Among those who have pledged their opposition to proposals for four 105-metre turbines on Reeves Hill and Stonewall Hill, near Knighton, submitted by Bolsterstone plc on land owned by Sir Simon Gourlay, is specialist in renewable energy Professor Michael Jefferson, who has stated in a radio broadcast that the proposed site is “not an ideal place”.  
Professor Jefferson’s concerns have been .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Powys cannot restrict wind farms</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[An &#8220;unlimited&#8221; number of wind farms could be built in parts of Mid Wales under planning guidance proposals out for public consultation, it has been claimed.
Powys County Council had sought to put a limit on developments in three areas of the county once the target for wind energy capacity had been reached.
These three Strategic Search Areas (SSAs) of Mid and North Powys, were identified as suitable for wind farm development by the Welsh Assembly Government’s TAN 8 Strategic Document.
But the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Unlimited windfarms for Powys&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[An unlimited number of windfarms could be built in three areas of mid and north Powys under planning guidance proposals, out for consultation.
Powys County Council (PCC) had wanted to cap the number of wind turbines that can be built in the three Strategic Search Areas (SSAs) identified by the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG), but has been told it cannot after taking legal advice and speaking to WAG ministers.
The move means the council will be able to do little to prevent .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm plans in limbo after council rejects mast</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A wind farm developer is set to appeal after plans to erect a wind measuring device near Porthcawl were thrown out by borough councillors.
Renewable Energy Partnerships Ltd (REP) eventually hopes to build three wind turbines, each with 80m towers and three 45m blades, on the disused airfield near Stormy Down.
But the plans could be in jeopardy after councillors kicked out REP’s bid to erect a 70m high anemometer, designed to record wind speed and direction, at Newton Down.
The mast, which .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Company gearing up for a fight</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Director of REP, Richard Hadwin, confirmed the company would be appealing against the council’s decision.
REP will also be teaming up with Sustainable Wales in John Street, Porthcawl, from next Monday, where the wind farm consultation documents will be displayed for people to view the proposals in a drop in centre style environment.
Margaret Minhinnick, of Sustainable Wales, said: “The idea of opening up the office was ours. It is an easier and more friendly way to give people information than putting .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm plans scrapped after noise nuisance fears</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Opponents of turbines across Wales were given a boost yesterday when an energy giant abandoned controversial proposals for a new wind farm.
E.on was granted permission to erect eight 280ft turbines on mountains overlooking Rhondda three years ago but has ditched the scheme following concerns over noise nuisance from the 10 megawatt project.
While opponents of the scheme said they had been “vindicated”, the decision was branded “disappointing” by Friends of the Earth.
The utility giant’s head of new business, Danny Shaw, said: .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Firm pulls out of wind farm plan</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[An energy company has pulled out of plans to build a wind farm in Rhondda due to concerns over noise.
E.On and community group Arts Factory wanted to build the eight-turbine wind farm between the Rhondda Fach and Fawr, near Ferndale.
But E.On said it was worried that the project could potentially pose a &#8220;noise nuisance&#8221; to nearby homes.
Arts Factory said it was looking for a new partner so that it could continue with the scheme.
E.On&#8217;s head of new business Danny Shaw .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind blows in more turbines</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A pair of reports released in the same week could have a massive effect on the future of Llandudno.
The government&#8217;s draft Renewable Energy Strategy favours a huge increase in offshore wind power and the Institution of Civil Engineers has backed a tidal energy scheme in Conwy.
Published by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, which is currently considering the 200-turbine Gwynt y Mor Wind Farm application, the report states: &#8220;We expect the key growth area to be wind power, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm plans abandoned</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Developers today abandoned plans for a South Wales wind farm.
E.on blamed noise nuisance for its decision to pull out of a scheme for eight 280ft turbines on mountains overlooking the Rhondda.
The utility giant’s head of new business, Danny Shaw, said: “We certainly didn’t take this decision lightly but, as a responsible developer, we simply wouldn’t be willing to build a scheme that we thought had the potential to exceed acceptable noise limits.
“We’ve looked at a number of solutions to make .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Power to the English</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[While I share Mr Dai Lloyd’s concerns regarding the devolution of power station consents, I’m curious as to why Plaid’s Labour colleagues in the Welsh Assembly are now more vocal on this issue too?
In February this year the Assembly’s sustainability Minister Jane Davidson announced a new renewable energy route map.
This document contains many interesting proposals, but one in particular caught my eye, proposals for a new “400 kilovolt Grid Link into England.”
This link – a series of huge pylons extending .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Sian shows support for countryside</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>29 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The winds of change have ruffled Neath weathergirl Sian Lloyd.
The television presenter has joined more than 50 politicians, celebrities and business leaders in urging the Assembly to halt plans for an expansion of wind power in Wales.
The Gwlad Alliance &#8212; a group formed to protect the landscapes of Wales &#8212; drafted a letter addressed to First Minister Rhodri Morgan, asking him to reconsider wind energy policy.
The letter states: &#8220;We believe that there are issues surrounding wind farms that need urgent .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Abandon bid for wind farm, charity is told</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Campaigners have called on green energy bosses finally to admit defeat in their fight to have a wind farm developed on an Amman Valley mountain.They want Awel Aman Tawe to drop its proposals for the turbines at Mynydd y Gwrhyd after planning chiefs refused permission for a second time.
And they say the energy charity shouldn&#8217;t try to overturn the latest refusal by challenging it in the courts &#8212; an avenue it pursued to no avail the first time around.
Terry .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Council back leader&#39;s motion</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Councillors have voted to disregard the interim planning guidance on windfarm applications from the Welsh Assembly.
At a meeting of Denbighshire County Council on Tuesday, June 24, members were asked by head of planning Graham Boase if they wanted to continue lobbying on TAN 8 &#8212; the policy used to determine windfarm applications &#8212; and if they thought they should stop using the Interim Planning Guidance (IPG) document drawn up in 2004 after consultation with the Assembly.
Councillors voted 35 to five .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Denbighshire windfarm plans scrapped due to increased demand</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Denbighshire County Council has scrapped its windfarm blueprint in light of increased demands for renewable energy from the Welsh Assembly Government.
The local authority last week voted to abolish the existing Interim Planning Guidance document, which it says is irrelevant due to increased targets for wind power.
All guidance will now come from Technical Advice Note 8, a document on sustainable power published by the Welsh Assembly Government, as a temporary measure.
This could mean increases in the number of wind projects givent .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Ffion Hague in anti-wind farm letter row</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The wife of Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague has asked for her name to be removed from an anti-wind farm letter.
Ffion Hague says she had not agreed for her name to be added to the 50-name open letter sent to First Minister Rhodri Morgan.
The letter, which also bears the names of TV weather presenter Siân Lloyd and nature broadcaster Iolo Williams, says: “The uplands of Wales are rapidly becoming wind farm zones&#8230; this will mean that some of the most .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Make your view known</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ I would like to bring people&#8217;s attention to the forthcoming public inquiry into the proposed extension to the wind farm site known as Blaen Bowi, near Newcastle Emlyn.
As some of you may be aware, an appeal has been lodged to the Assembly by the developers of the site, Windjen.
This is in direct response to the decision by Carmarthenshire Council to refuse the proposed extension from three turbines to six.
The council planning committee refused the application in October last year .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrities call for windfarm plan rethink</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[First minister Rhodri Morgan was urged yesterday to scrap the Assembly Government’s windfarm plans which would devastate some of Wales’ most stunning countryside.
Fifty prominent Welsh figures in public life signed an open letter appealing to Mr Morgan to re-think proposals for a big expansion of wind-power. They include the uplands of the Denbigh Moors and Cambrian Mountains, and an area off the North Wales coast.
Signatories included broadcasters Iolo Williams and Sian Lloyd, the Archbishop of Wales Dr Barry Morgan, Ffion .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>AM told talks over Welsh energy projects stay private</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ A snubbed Swansea AM has been told not to interfere in government discussions about big energy projects in Wales.Dai Lloyd wanted to find out more about discussions between the Assembly and UK Governments over who gives the final say on new schemes like power stations, large wind farms and gas pipelines.
But his request, submitted under the Freedom of Information Act, was turned down.
The UK Government said it wanted discussions to remain private. If they didn&#8217;t, it warned, discussions with .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Turbines back on agenda as measuring device is approved</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Plans for a three-turbine wind farm near Porthcawl are back in the spotlight.
Town councillors have raised no formal objection to the erection of a 70m high anemometer, designed to record wind speed and direction, at Newton Down.
Renewable Energy Partnerships Ltd (REP) eventually hope to build three wind turbines, each with 80m towers and three 45m blades, on the disused airfield near Stormy Down.
Public consultation began in April and people have until July 31 to submit their views to a website.
Chairman .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Councillors get wind of turbine plan</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A would-be windfarm came under the spotlight this week, as councillors visited the proposed turbine site.
The plateau between Maerdy coal tip and Tynewydd forest could soon house the 400-ft towers, if plans submitted by the Wiltshire-based Renewable Energy Partnership (REP) are approved.
Planning committee members visited two spots near Maerdy and another two thirds of the way along the A4233 towards Aberdare.
Planning officer Huw Roberts said the sites were chosen because they offered the best views of the site, around one-and-a-half .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Another blow for wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Green energy campaigners have voiced dismay after their wind farm plans were blown away for the second time.
Last year, Awel Aman Tawe failed in its attempt to have a four-turbine farm developed on Mynydd y Gwrhyd, near Pontardawe, after exhausting all legal avenues.
Now, Neath Port Talbot Council planners have rejected a second application, this time for a two-turbine development.
Project manager Dan McCallum said: &#8220;We are very disappointed.
&#8220;The community voted in favour of the scheme through a referendum.
&#8220;We think it .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Turbines policy vote for county</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Councillors will discuss how to deal with wind farm applications after controversially snubbing Parliamentary orders to increase renewable energy production.
Earlier this year, a U-turn saw members give the go ahead to a turbine on Denbighshire moorland.
But plans for another less than a mile away were refused for the second time.
Environment minister Jane Davidson accused the council of “inconsistency”.
Now the authority will set new decision-making guidelines at a meeting of full council on Tuesday.
Earlier this year, the planning committee reversed a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Renewable energy myths</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ With the publication of the Friends of the Earth [FoE] document, Wind Power 20 Myths Blown Away, fully endorsed by Minister AM Jane Davidson, I was highly amused at the very clever way it has been worded &#8212; and the way it has neatly avoided giving a full and balanced picture &#8212; a veritable symphony in spin.
I am surprised Davidson&#8217;s advisors let her be a party to this report.
If we take just one of the 20 points:
Wind farms harm .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Turbine could be dangerous</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ I note from this newspaper (June 16) that Tesco is proposing to put three wind turbines at its store in Llansamlet.
Fairly recently, a wind turbine self-destructed in Denmark, due to high winds, and showered metal shrapnel for almost half a mile.
Yet, Tesco wants to put these potentially dangerous machines in an area which will often be densely populated with customers.
As a consulting electrical engineer, I have always worked on the principle if it can happen it will happen.
This could .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>&#39;Back us&#39; plea by protesters</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Campaigners fighting plans to extend a Teifi Valley wind farm are appealing to politicians for their support.
The Blaen Bowi Action Group has written to Adam Price MP and Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM to oppose three more wind turbines being built between Newcastle Emlyn and Capel Iwan.
Carmarthenshire Council refused permission for the three extra turbines last October, but the operators have appealed to the Assembly.
No date, or venue, has been set for the planning inquiry, but is likely to be .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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