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

Fleetwood’s fishing future ‘at risk’ from wind farm plans 

Credit:  BBC News | 24 August 2016 | www.bbc.co.uk ~~

Fishing in a Lancashire port is in danger of “total collapse” because of plans to impose a fishing “exclusion zone”, fishermen have claimed.

Danish firm Dong Energy plans to expand the Walney offshore wind farm next year and wants all fishing boats to avoid a “narrow strip” of the Irish Sea.

Fleetwood’s fishermen staged a flotilla protest over the firm’s compensation offer of £750 per vessel.

Dong Energy said it wanted to “reach a mutually acceptable arrangement”.

‘Bread and butter’

The firm said it was not an exclusion zone but a request to avoid a stretch of water up to 800m (0.5 mile) wide for four months to complete the expansion to the wind farm off Cumbria’s coast.

Will Bamber, from Fleetwood Commercial Fishermen’s Group which represents the skippers and vessel owners, said the strip is fished by all their vessels and makes up at least 80% of their fishing grounds.

He said they would agree to keep out of the area but the compensation offered was “far from acceptable”.

“That is where we earn our bread and butter and we can’t go anywhere else.”

Mr Bamber said: “They’re going to take it away from us… and we need compensating fairly for that.”

Lancaster and Fleetwood MP Cat Smith said it was “incredibly important the deal was in proportion to their loss” not just for the fishermen.

“It is their livelihoods but also for the town… fishing is part of Fleetwood’s identity.”

Dong Energy said it had reached agreement with around 100 fishermen operating from north west ports regarding work planned for the wind farm which will be one of the world’s largest when completed.

It said compensation includes “appropriate disturbance payments for any potential loss of catch, or other costs”.

Source:  BBC News | 24 August 2016 | www.bbc.co.uk

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