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Other Peel Wind farm Projects

  • STOP – Stop the turbines oppose Peel

 

Other Wind Farm Links

  • The Register - WRONG kind of WIND blamed for renewable red-ink FAIL.
  • Windbytes - Tracking the wind rush in England, some interesting stuff on this site.
  • Artists Against Wind Farms – A group formed by artist Christine Lovelock, daughter of Gaia theorist Dr James Lovelock
  • STOPstw – Stop Severn Trent Water – STOPstw (formerly Burstonwind) was formed to lead the fight against Severn Trent Water’s proposed three 132m (433 ft) high wind turbines on land at Aston Hall Farm, adjacent to the River Trent, canal and wetlands between Aston by Stone and Burston, Staffordshire.
  • BWAG – Baumber Wind Farm Action Group – Group formed to oppose a proposal by Enertrag for eight 125m. turbines at Chase Farm, Baumber, near Horncastle in the Lincolnshire Wolds.
  • Stop Benington Wind Farm Action Group – “A proposal by R.H. Bott & Sons to erect three large (120m) wind turbines on High Elms Lane, between Benington, Aston and Watton-at-Stone in Hertfordshire.”
  • SBWT – Stop Bickerton Wind Turbines – “An action group dedicated to protect and conserve the landscape, tranquillity and wildlife of the Bickerton Hill area [of Cheshire] for the benefit of residents, visitors and local businesses.”
  • Stop Bicton Wind Farm – Group opposing a proposal by Broadview Energy for up to eight 125m turbines to the north west of Grafham Reservoir, nr. Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire.
  • SPAWF – Staffordshire Protest Against Wind Farm – Opposing a proposal by Harworth Power to erect 3 x 102m wind turbines at Bleak House, nr. Wimblebury, Cannock, Staffordshire.
  • BLOT – Bodmin and Lanivet Oppose Turbines, – An action group opposed to the proposed building of huge wind turbines in the Lanivet, Bodmin area in the beautiful countryside of North Cornwall.
    Ecotricity wants to build at least six 330 feet (100 metre)wind-turbines in the Reperry Cross area, on the side of the hill stretching alongside the Bodmin bypass.
  • BLOT – Bozeat Lavendon Oppose Turbines – “We are the campaign organisation for the villages surrounding the proposed Windfarm Development by Npower at Nun Wood that will lay across the three counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire and will have an immediate and major impact on the villages of Bozeat (Northants), Harrold (Beds) and Lavendon (Bucks) along with many smaller villages and communities within the area.“
  • KNOll to Wind Farm – Proposal by Ecotricity for five 100 metreturbines which would dominate the Somerset Levels landscape and severely damage the historic landscape of Brent Knoll was rejected by a Planning Inspector on 15 January 2008, following a public inquiry triggered by Ecotricity’s appeal against refusal by the LPA.
  • Cefn Croes photo-gallery – Rape of an upland plateau – More grim reality – the destruction of a landscape as a turbine array is built.IF YOU LOOK AT NOTHING ELSE, LOOK AT THIS.
  • RATS – Residents Against TurbineS – Carland Cross Wind Farm Action Group – Group opposing a planning application submitted by Scottish Power, to replace the 15 existing 49m turbines next to the A30, near Truro, with ten 100m turbines on a much extended site on Newlyn Downs and adjacent farm land.
  • ATAC – Against Turbines At Chiplow – “ATAC is a group formed in August 2007 to fight the proposals by E.On UK to build a wind farm at Chiplow in West Norfolk, UK.”
  • Cotton Farm Action Group – Group opposing a proposal by NPower to construct 8 massive wind turbines, up to 127m (416ft high), at Cotton Farm overlooking the Ouse Valley in Cambridgeshire.
  • Friends of Craven Landscape – Group fighting a proposal by EnergieKontor to build five 100m (328 ft)turbines at Brightenber Hill, a Special Landscape Area, between Gargrave and West Marton, about 6 miles from Skipton in Yorkshire. The area is a green oasis of rolling hills about 2.5 miles south of the Yorkshire Dales National Park and 3.5 miles east of the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
  • Den Brook Wind Farm – Judicial Review Information – Renewable Energy Systems (RES) had been given approval to build nine 400 ft high wind turbines in mid-Devon’s Den Brook Valley. Planning permission was originally refused by the local Council, but was overturned on appeal.
    As a result of the Den Brook Valley Judicial Review Team’s legal actions, the Secretary of State has quashed the unlawful planning permission for the mid Devon wind farm. The application will now have to go back to the Planning Inspectorate to determine the next step.
    ‘The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government conceded the Den Brook Team’s appeal on the noise grounds alone but the Court of Appeal granted permission to appeal on the other ground, namely that the planning inspector as part of the overall planning balance must consider the actual likely electricity contribution of the particular site.’
  • DART – Dorset Against Rural Turbines – Opposing a proposal by Infinergy for six 125m (410ft) industrial wind turbines at East Stoke, near Wareham.
  • DTOG – Dunsland Turbines Opposition Group – Opposing Bolsterstone’s proposal to build four wind turbines at Dunsland Cross next to the village of Brandis Corner, between Holsworthy and Torrington in North Devon.
  • FELLS – Friends of Eden, Lakeland and Lunesdale Scenery – “FELLS began its fight to protect the countryside of Cumbria and North Lancashire from inappropriately sited wind farms in June 2000 and continues to provide support and up to date information to community groups opposing wind farm developers in the area.”
  • FLAT – Fenland Landscape Against Turbines – “FLAT is a campaign to stop wind turbines being erected at Marshland St James, Norfolk.”
  • Glyncorrwg Action Group – Originally formed in 1993 to fight a proposal by Ecogen for 45 turbines at Blaencorrwg, near Glyncorrwg. The proposal was refused in Feb 1994, but Ecogen reapplied for 36 turbines, 180 feet high. In Nov 1994 this proposal was rejected; the company did not appeal.
    The group reformed to fight a proposal by Eco2 for four 410 ftturbines at Corrwg Fechan, near to houses in Glyncorrwg and a Gamesa plan for 4 turbines 603 feet high on Blaencorrwg behind Cymmer Road and 10 turbines 603 feet high on Gelli Mountain in Cymmer/Croeserw.
  • HALT – Group opposing a scheme by Stamford Renewables Ltd for up twelve 130m (427 ft) turbines in the Ringsfield and Barsham parishes near Beccles, Suffolk.
  • SHOWT – Stop Hempnall’s Onshore Wind Turbines – Action group of local villages campaigning against Enertrag UK’s proposal for seven 130m turbines near Hempnall, in rural South Norfolk some seven miles south of Norwich.
    The proposal was unanimously (7-0) rejected on 5 August 2008 but Enertrag have announced their intention to appeal the decision.
  • Belthorn village website – Stop the Hyndburn Wind Farm – Group opposing proposal by Energiekontor for twelve 122m turbines on Oswaldtwistle Moor, Lancashire.
  • Stop Kelmarsh Wind Farm – Kelmarsh Hall is a Grade 1 listed building in northern Northamptonshire owned by a private charitable Trust. The gardens are also listed. The Trustees of the Kelmarsh Hall Trust are proposing to have seven 120 m. windturbines erected next to the Civil War battlefield of Naseby which borders the Kelmarsh Hall estate to the West.
  • VVASP – Vale Villages Against Scottish Power renewables[Lenchwick] – Group opposing proposal to build ten 125m turbinesat Lenchwick, overlooking theVale of Evesham in Worcestershire.
  • Lilbourne Action Group Against the Wind Farm Opposing scheme by Cetis for twelve 125m turbines on land adjacent the village of Lilbourne which is on the borders of Warwickshire, Northamptonshire and Leicestershire.
  • AWFALS – Against Wind Farm At Low Spinney – Group opposing proposal by Broadview Energy for six 125m turbines on Low Spinney between the villages of Dunton Bassett, Ashby Magna and Gilmorton in the Harborough District of South Leicestershire.
  • STILE – Stop Turbines in Lunesdale Environment – “Group formed in April 2005 to oppose the spread of wind turbines in conspicuous locations within the Lune Valley, where their siting would have a detrimental effect on the rural and environmental character of the area whilst providing minimal energy generation with disproportionate destruction of the countryside.”
  • AMP – Action Against Matlock Moor Wind Farm Proposal – Group opposing a proposal by West Coast Energy for five 125m turbineson Matlock Moor, in North East Derbyshire.
  • Mynydd Llansadwrn Action Group – Action group set up to protect Mynydd Llansadwrn, part of the spectacular undulating landscape of Carmarthenshire, in south Wales, from speculative developers.
  • Newlands Wind Farm Action Group – Group opposing a proposal by Bolsterstone Plc for three 115m turbines at Newlands Farm, close to Cumwhinton, nr. Carlisle.
  • NHWAG – North Hambleton Windfarm Action Group – Campaign Group opposing a proposal by Pure Renewable Energies for nine 125m turbines at Ingram Grange Farm close to communities at Appleton Wiske, Deighton, East Rounton, Great Smeaton, Hornby, Little Smeaton, Picton, Welbury and West Rounton in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire.
  • PAG – Peckleton Action Group – Group opposing a proposal to site two 125 metre (410ft) high wind turbines on land between the villages of Desford, Peckleton, Kirkby Mallory and Newbold Verdon, in the Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council area of Leicestershire.
  • VORTEX – – Group fighting an application by Nuon Renewables for 7 x 105m turbines on a site at Poplar Lane, Bearstone, North Shropshire.
  • Protect Sheephouse Heights – Group opposing Dutch company Evelop’s proposal for five 125m turbines at Sheephouse Heights, above Stocksbridge and Penistone, near Barnsley, on the edge of the Peak District National Park.
  • STOP – Sibsey Turbine On-shore Protest – Group opposing Iberdrola’s scheme for ten 394 foot turbines between Sibsey and Stickney in East Lindsey District, Lincolnshire.
  • SOS – Save Our Silton – Group opposing a proposal by Ecotricity to build six 120m (394ft) wind turbines at Silton near Gillingham, in Dorset.
    MOD are requiring warning lights on these turbines: ‘Miss Cyranne Taylor the “Safeguarding Officer – Wind Energy” for MoD, Defence Estates, writes: “If construction goes ahead there will be a requirement for 200 candela fixed omni-directional red lighting on each turbine due to their location in the Night Low Flying System.”’
  • SOBER – Save Our Borderland Environment – “SOBER is a voluntary group of people whose aim is to protect the landscape and wildlife of the Oswestry and Welsh Borderlands from insensitively sited wind-driven power stations.”
  • SOCME – Save Our Common Mountain Environment – Group opposing a proposal by National Wind Power for a large windpower station on the profoundly beautiful and historic Mynydd Y Gwair (The Hay Mountain), North Gower.
  • SOS – Save Our Scenery – “Npower Renewables want to site the largest offshore wind farm in the UK in our bay. We already have 30wind turbines off Prestatyn some 14 miles off our heritage coastline but they currently intrude upon our bay on clear days. Consent already exists for a further 30 (Rhyl Flats consented in 2003) This will take the cumulative total to 60. The Gwynt-Y-Mor (Windy Sea ) will add a further 200+ of the largest turbines yet at 520 feet. These will be approximately 5 miles off the Llandudno Promenade. A total of 260… a fence of steel will enclose the bay.”
  • COST – Community Opposed to Shap Turbines – Opposing a proposal by Gamesa for ten 100 metre turbines that threaten Shap and the Eden Valley.
  • SIEGE – Southminster Inhabitants Environmental Group Enterprise– Group campaigning against 2 proposals, by Ridgewind and RES for a total of 29 turbines on the Dengie Peninsular in Essex (See BATTLE above for group fighting another 10 in this area).
  • SOS – Save our Stainmore – Group opposing a proposal by Community Windpower Ltd to build twelve 125 metre (410 feet)turbines at South Stainmore, within the North Pennines AONB.
  • FRAWT – Feldon Residents And Wind Turbines [Starbold WF] – Group opposing a proposal by Broadview Energy Ltd at Knightcote Farm in Knightcote Village, Warwickshire.
  • SSWFAG – Stop Swinford Wind Farm Action Group – Group opposing a proposal by Nuon for 11 x 125 metre (410 ft.) turbinesbetween the villages of Swinford and Walcote in Leicestershire.
  • STINC – Stop Turbines In North Cornwall – “We represent a growing number of local people who are seriously worried about the new winddevelopments currently being proposed for Davidstow, Hendraburnick, Otterham and the repowering of Delabole and are committed to stopping the construction of these and any further wind farms in North Cornwall.
    “The group was formed at a public meeting of about 200 residents on 13th August 2007 at Clease Hall, Camelford. All of the committee members are local residents and are working for the group as volunteers.    ”
  • SHCG – Stonewall Hill and Reeves Hill Conservation Group – “Set up to co-ordinate actions and protect the tranquillity of Stonewall and Reeves hill [Herefordshire] which are under threat from wind power station developers.”
  • Tallentire Area Action Group – Group opposing plans by Novera Energy to erect 5 massive wind turbines at Fleeter Wood close to Tallentire and Townhead, Dearham, in the Northern Fells of Cumbria.
  • TAG – Tivetshall Action Group – Group opposing a proposal by Enertrag for six 125m turbines close to Tivetshall St Mary and Dickleburgh, in South Norfolk.
  • Stop Wadlow Wind Farm – Group opposing proposal by Renewable Energy Systems Ltd (RES) to build thirteen 120 metre (393 ft.) highwind turbines at Wadlow Farm in South Cambridgeshire.
  • 4Villages (Upper Vaunces) – 4Villages is a group set up to oppose the Upper Vaunces proposal by TCI Renewables for three 125mturbines near the villages of Dickleburgh, Rushall, Pulham Market and Pulham St Mary in South Norfolk.
  • Visit Wales Now – Visit Wales and see the spectacular landscape!
  • VORTEX – Group fighting an application by Nuon Renewables for 7 x 105m turbines on a site at Poplar Lane, Bearstone, North Shropshire.
  • WWW – Westhall Wind Watch – Group opposing a proposal by Bernard Matthews Ltd. for five 100m turbines at its Holton plant,near Halesworth, in Suffolk.
  • WARD – Weston Against Rural Destruction – Group opposing an application by a landowner for 3 x 120m turbines on a site at Weston , nr. Hitchin, North Hertfordshire.
  • SWCP – Save Westwood Country Park – Group formed by local people to oppose the construction of wind turbines proposed by Sheffield City Council for Westwood Country Park.
    “Westwood Country Park is a green area set aside for the PUBLIC. It is a beautiful and tranquil site; rich in wildlife; and enjoyed by people for jogging, rambling, dog walking, and play by adults and children alike.”
  • Wind Farm Victims – “How a remote Welsh valley is under threat of being turned into an industrial zone. Read our story… and tell us yours!”
  • Wingates NOT Wind Farms – “‘Wingates Not Wind Farms’ action group is set up to fight the proposals by Novera Energy, Coronation Power and RES (UK) Ltd in their plans to build several wind farm sites which would envelope Wingates village and the surrounding area.”
  • WWFO – Wolds WindFarm Opposition – A group of residents from Skerne, Hutton, Watton, Watton Carrs and Hutton Cranswick, in Yorkshire, opposing the construction of ten 125m turbines.
  • Stop Woodlane wind farm – Residents opposing plans by German windfarm developer, Prowind, for fourteen 125 metre (410ft) windturbines between the villages of Birkin, West Haddlesey, Gateforth and Hillam, near Selby in North Yorkshire.
  • NO WAY – NO Windfarm At Yelvertoft – Group opposing a proposal by Your Energy Ltd to build eight 125m (410ft) wind turbines at Yelverton in the Daventry District of Northamptonshire.
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