Nottingham's first proposed wind farms need support.
Beth | 26.10.2006 11:57 | Ecology
Nottingham's first possible wind farms need your help.
ACT NOW & JOIN US.
On Saturday 28th October at 12pm
Mansfield, Near McDonalds on the High Street.
ACT NOW & JOIN US.
On Saturday 28th October at 12pm
Mansfield, Near McDonalds on the High Street.
Supporters of the wind farms will be asking members of the public to sign letters of support. Please help to get letters signed and show Newark and Sherwood council the strength of feeling FOR windfarms.
The council's decision will most probably be made in the first week of November on these 2 proposed wind farm sites.
Wind farm 1.
The Lindhurst Wind farm:
A proposal for 5 turbines on land South of Mansfield by Npower to provide electricity for 4,700 - 5,100 homes.
http://www.npower-renewables.com/lindhurst/index.asp
Wind farm 2.
The Eakring Wind farm:
A proposal for 7 turbines on a former colliery site and farmland by Harworth Power Ltd and Eakring Farming Ltd to provide electricity for 17% of Newark and Sherwood.
http://planning.newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk/pp/Gold/ViewGold.asp?ID=3469
Proposals for new wind farms and sites take years of research and evaluation, we cannot ignore these two potential sites. Climate change is now far too great a threat to ignore. The U.K is shamefully Europe's second largest emitter of Greenhouse gases and is way behind most other E.U countries in providing renewable energy (U.K = 2.4%, Sweden = 26% and aiming for oil free existence).
Of course nobody is saying that we can obtain all of our energy needs from wind turbines but with energy efficiency, micro generation, wave, tidal, solar and biomass we can at least go some way towards a clean, renewable, fossil and nuclear free future.
Write to the local council:
Cllr Keith Shepherd
keith.sheppard@nsdc.info
Cllr Roger Blaney rogerblaney@yahoo.co.uk
Cllr Gordon Brooks gordonbrooksat39@yahoo.co.uk
Cllr Leonard Wilkes leonard.wilkes@newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk
Cllr Allen Tift allen.tift@newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk
Cllr Alan Hannaford alan.hannaford@nsdc.info
Cllr Kevan Wakefield wakefieldk@btopenworld.com
Cllr Leonard Sprigg leonard.sprigg@nsdc.info
Cllr Geoffrey Merry geoff_merry@yahoo.co.uk
Cllr Eileen Rodgers eileen.rodgers@btopenworld.com
Join:
http://www.se-alliance.org.uk/
http://www.yes2wind.com/
The opposition:
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/eakringbirds/windturbines.htm
http://www.eakring.org/
We have written to Eakring Turbine Action Group in order to gain more information on some of their claims, we await a reply (particularly on the claim that 81% of Eakring residents say 'No' to the proposed wind farm - have they really polled all 6,400 residents of Eakring????).
Listen to the previous BBC Groundswell debate:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/articles/2006/02/10/wind_farm_groundswell_feature.shtml
The council's decision will most probably be made in the first week of November on these 2 proposed wind farm sites.
Wind farm 1.
The Lindhurst Wind farm:
A proposal for 5 turbines on land South of Mansfield by Npower to provide electricity for 4,700 - 5,100 homes.
http://www.npower-renewables.com/lindhurst/index.asp Wind farm 2.
The Eakring Wind farm:
A proposal for 7 turbines on a former colliery site and farmland by Harworth Power Ltd and Eakring Farming Ltd to provide electricity for 17% of Newark and Sherwood.
http://planning.newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk/pp/Gold/ViewGold.asp?ID=3469 Proposals for new wind farms and sites take years of research and evaluation, we cannot ignore these two potential sites. Climate change is now far too great a threat to ignore. The U.K is shamefully Europe's second largest emitter of Greenhouse gases and is way behind most other E.U countries in providing renewable energy (U.K = 2.4%, Sweden = 26% and aiming for oil free existence).
Of course nobody is saying that we can obtain all of our energy needs from wind turbines but with energy efficiency, micro generation, wave, tidal, solar and biomass we can at least go some way towards a clean, renewable, fossil and nuclear free future.
Write to the local council:
Cllr Keith Shepherd
keith.sheppard@nsdc.info Cllr Roger Blaney
rogerblaney@yahoo.co.uk Cllr Gordon Brooks
gordonbrooksat39@yahoo.co.uk Cllr Leonard Wilkes
leonard.wilkes@newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk Cllr Allen Tift
allen.tift@newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk Cllr Alan Hannaford
alan.hannaford@nsdc.info Cllr Kevan Wakefield
wakefieldk@btopenworld.com Cllr Leonard Sprigg
leonard.sprigg@nsdc.info Cllr Geoffrey Merry
geoff_merry@yahoo.co.uk Cllr Eileen Rodgers
eileen.rodgers@btopenworld.com Join:
http://www.se-alliance.org.uk/ http://www.yes2wind.com/ The opposition:
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/eakringbirds/windturbines.htm http://www.eakring.org/ We have written to Eakring Turbine Action Group in order to gain more information on some of their claims, we await a reply (particularly on the claim that 81% of Eakring residents say 'No' to the proposed wind farm - have they really polled all 6,400 residents of Eakring????).
Listen to the previous BBC Groundswell debate:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/articles/2006/02/10/wind_farm_groundswell_feature.shtml
Beth
Additions
Share with us your claims.
06.11.2006 13:20
Well Ted, why don't you share with us and substantiate your claims so that everyone can see them. Don't just save them for yourself. How many people did you poll? How noisy is a modern day turbine? How will it cause division in the local community? I wasn't aware anyone had been killed by a turbine - are they really as dangerous as you make out? Please tell us.
As a reminder ETAG'S claims:
81% of villagers polled were against the wind farm development.
Eakring Turbine Action Group believes that the wind farm will:
* Bring no benefit to our local community
* Detract from the natural scale and character of our local environment
* Endanger people living nearby and those visiting the local countryside
* Destroy our quality of life with noise, light flicker and shadows
* Create division among our local community
* Cause economic disadvantage through reduced property values
in the village and surrounding area
As a reminder ETAG'S claims:
81% of villagers polled were against the wind farm development.
Eakring Turbine Action Group believes that the wind farm will:
* Bring no benefit to our local community
* Detract from the natural scale and character of our local environment
* Endanger people living nearby and those visiting the local countryside
* Destroy our quality of life with noise, light flicker and shadows
* Create division among our local community
* Cause economic disadvantage through reduced property values
in the village and surrounding area
Windy Miller
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