December 18, 2007
England

Wind farm gets go-ahead

Councillors have approved the controversial wind farm planning application for Petsoe End.

The city planning committee was split 6-5 in favour of siting seven 406ft turbines on a hillside near the village of Emberton.

Some 200 supporters and opponents of the Your Energy scheme jammed into the public gallery at council chamber for the two-hour debate.

The meeting was briefly suspended after a council lawyer queried whether a committee member might have a prejudicial interest in the issue.

Objectors repeated claims that the turbines were the ‘wrong technology, in the wrong place at the wrong time’.

Committee member Cllr Jaime Tamignini-Barbosa said communities must begin a switch to using renewable energy otherwise there would be no landscape left to protect.

“We must accept that sometimes we must make sacrifices,” he said.

Milton Keynes Citizen

18 December 2007


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