LOCATION/TYPE

NEWS HOME

[ exact phrase in "" • results by date ]

[ Google-powered • results by relevance ]



Archive
RSS

Add NWW headlines to your site (click here)

Get weekly updates

WHAT TO DO
when your community is targeted

RSS

RSS feeds and more

Keep Wind Watch online and independent!

Donate via Paypal

Donate via Stripe

Selected Documents

All Documents

Research Links

Alerts

Press Releases

FAQs

Campaign Material

Photos & Graphics

Videos

Allied Groups

Wind Watch is a registered educational charity, founded in 2005.

News Watch Home

Tourists don't want turbines 

If you think it’s a good idea to cheapen the shop window of the Northern Lakes, with the construction of nine 335ft steel wind turbines on Berrier Hill, adjacent to the Lake District National Park and overlooking Blencathra – ask yourself this; how many businesses, or agencies, do you think will use a photograph of the wind farm in their promotional literature?

I suspect hardly any – because instinctively you, and they, know industrial wind turbines do not attract visitors or tourists to the Lakes.

Admittedly it’s not just Wordsworth and daffodils that bring tourists flocking there, but perception is everything, and if you damage the Lake District Gold Standard with a steel noose of wind farms around the neck of Cumbria, you risk killing the goose that lays the proverbial eggs.

There is an undeniable magic in the air when you travel up the M6 to Cumbria, it is an oasis in a desert of mediocrity.

To obscure this stardust with a windfarm on the A66 – which is one of the main arterial routes into the Northern Lakes and West Cumbria – would sadden the heart of a weary traveller, and close their eyes to the special magic of the Northern Fells, and the Eden Valley.

The outstanding natural beauty of the English Lake District is your life blood.

So protect your inheritance, use your imagination, and say no to Berrier Hill Wind Farm.

DR JANE COOPER

Bowscale

Penrith

News & Star

29 October 2007

This article is the work of the source indicated. Any opinions expressed in it are not necessarily those of National Wind Watch.

The copyright of this article resides with the author or publisher indicated. As part of its noncommercial educational effort to present the environmental, social, scientific, and economic issues of large-scale wind power development to a global audience seeking such information, National Wind Watch endeavors to observe “fair use” as provided for in section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law and similar “fair dealing” provisions of the copyright laws of other nations. Send requests to excerpt, general inquiries, and comments via e-mail.

Wind Watch relies entirely
on User Funding
   Donate via Paypal
(via Paypal)
Donate via Stripe
(via Stripe)

Share:

e-mail X FB LI TG TG Share


News Watch Home

Get the Facts
CONTACT DONATE PRIVACY ABOUT SEARCH
© National Wind Watch, Inc.
Use of copyrighted material adheres to Fair Use.
"Wind Watch" is a registered trademark.

 Follow:

Wind Watch on X Wind Watch on Facebook

Wind Watch on Linked In Wind Watch on Mastodon