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Wind Power News: October 2003
These news and opinion items are gathered by National Wind Watch in its noncommercial educational effort to help keep readers informed about developments related to industrial wind energy. They do not necessarily reflect the opinions of National Wind Watch. They are the products of and owned by the organizations or individuals noted and are shared here according to “fair use” and “fair dealing” provisions of copyright law.
Windpower battle shifts to new front
Anti-windfarm campaigners already locked in battle over plans for 27 turbines at Tebay are expanding their campaign to lobby against fresh wind power proposals for Eden. Friends of Eden, Lakeland and Lunedale, aka FELLS, are staging a meeting at Appleby Grammar School next Tuesday (November 4) to galvanise local opposition to plans for three turbines at Hoff Moor, south of Appleby. The application from Appleby farmer Harold Bainbridge, is modest compared to that submitted by West Coast Energy which envisages . . . Complete story »
A Question of Values: A Flint Hills Rancher Ponders Industrial Wind Development
Resolving Our Cultural Identity Crisis: Agriculture vs. Environment
"...this concept of preserving land in private hands has become a great theme of our region. Our Flint Hills culture has rested on this principle: that we want our land to remain agriculturally productive in private hands, namely producing high quality beef cattle, at the same time we preserve the Flint Hills much as they were hundreds of years ago." Complete story »
Wind Turbines Equal Impoverished Legacy
"I realize that our ridge tops are not a legally constituted commons in whose future we all have an interest. But wouldn't it be a benefit to the community if they were? After all, they represent a natural legacy left to us by our predecessors in this area, whether by intention or default." Complete story »
Thanks Neighbor
I can’t help but think if it weren’t for Zilkha bursting at the seams with taxpayer money, that this wind turbine controversy bitterly pittting a few large landowners against hundreds of ordinary citizens, would never have happened. Complete story »
