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Ear of Mighty River limited to the few – Manawatu Standard (Palmerston North, New Zealand)
Wind farm redesign hearing to restrict submission speakers. PEOPLE who want to tell a board of inquiry what they think of the redesigned
Turitea Wind Farm proposal will soon find out if the board wants to hear from
them. Of 225 submitters on Mighty River Power’s adjusted proposal, 103 people
Consistency plea over wind farm ; E YORKS: Public inquiry into nine- turbine site begins – Hull Daily Mail (Hull, Uk)
AN ENERGY company has urged a planning inspector to follow previous
public inquiries and give the latest Holderness wind farm scheme the go-ahead. Renewable Energy Systems (RES) insists there needs to be consistency as
other similar developments have been successful on appeal. A public inquiry
Opposition left blowing in the wind; – The Sarnia Observer
Two years after hundreds of local residents and the
township’s council vehemently opposed a large wind farm, plans are
moving forward to start construction. Officials with the Sydenham Wind Energy Centre say they will start
building their $160-million farm in 2011 if Ontario Power Authority
(OPA)
‘If this wind farm is approved there’ll be no planning policy left’ ; E RIDING: Protester’s warning as inquiry begins – Hull Daily Mail (Hull, Uk)
A WIND farm protester has warned the local planning procedure could
become obsolete as the latest public inquiry begins. Cherie Blenkin, of South Holderness Opposes Wind Turbines, believes the
arguments are so strong against the plans by Renewable Energy Systems (RES)
that a damaging precedent
Inquiry into wind farm ; IN BRIEF – Hull Daily Mail (Hull, Uk)
ROOS: A public inquiry will begin tomorrow into proposals to build a
nine-turbine wind farm near the village in Holderness. Last year, East Riding councillors threw out Renewable Energy Systems’ plans
due to visual impact, the effect on the character of the rural area and the
cumulative
Residents baffled at exclusions – Manawatu Standard (Palmerston North, New Zealand)
Wind farm meetings should have been open to all, residents say. RESIDENTS near the proposed Turitea Wind Farm say they do not need Mighty
River Power to protect them from the media. The power company has conducted community consultation meetings with
residents of Kahuterawa Rd and Greens Rd
Britain’s wave and tidal power plans under threat – The Daily Telegraph
EUROPE’S biggest renewable energy producer has withdrawn from the race to build Britain’s first wave and tidal plants, as industry warned that marine power needs an extra £200m from taxpayers to be
viable. Statkraft, the Norwegian utility giant, which is developing the UK’s biggest wind farm with
Layout changes ‘not enough’ – Manawatu Standard (Palmerston North, New Zealand)
THE major contractual partners of the proposed Turitea Wind Farm near
Palmerston North are slightly closer to agreement, but remain a long way from
seeing eye to eye. Mighty River Power wants up to 104 turbines. Palmerston North City Council senior planner Jeff Baker believes 28 would
EDITOR’S NOTE – The Press (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Fancy a trip to Antartica? Who wouldn’t say yes to that question -
certainly not Your Weekend writer John McCrone, who headed to the icy continent
this year to cover, among other things, the commissioning of a wind farm that
now powers New Zealand’s Scott Base. While there he was impertinent enough
Islands powered by British aid – The Daily Telegraph
Britain is to spend £26million building a wind farm to power the whole of Cape Verde, an isolated archipelago off the west coast of Africa. With a population of 500,000 stretched over a 1,500 square mile chain of islands, Cape Verde needs a dramatic expansion of its electricity network to support
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