| Wind farm boss puffs up Labour's election funds |
| The owner of a wind farm company which stands to make
millions from Labour’s push for alternative energy will this week
emerge as one of the party’s biggest donors during the general election
campaign. |
Times
Online
Scotland
on Sunday
icCoventry
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| 2,000 more wind turbines in countryside |
| A massive expansion of wind power involving thousands
of new turbines will go ahead despite increasingly bitter wrangling
over claims that they are despoiling Britain's countryside. |
| The
Observer |
| Tilting at windmills: nation split over energy eyesores |
| Hundreds of turbines will be switched on this year,
and the volume of protest is rising. |
| The
Observer |
| A plan for a £6 million sea test centre for renewable
energy will be unveiled tomorrow by the deputy first minister, Jim
Wallace. |
| Sunday
Herald |
| A deafening silence over nuclear power |
| It's a shame that Bob Ball didn't read my letter in
more detail before assuming I was insinuating that nuclear power was
an inevitable and mandated conclusion to the debate over sustainable
energy. |
| this
is leicestershire |
| Don't write off nuclear power as energy source |
| Your headline last week. 'Country needs nuclear power'
will, I hope, develop an informed debate on the major issue of global
warming and the need for serious consideration to be given to the
development of nuclear power, which is long overdue. |
| Scotland
on Sunday |
| Wind farm plan prompts SNH concern for eagles |
| A proposed wind farm near Loch Ness would have an unacceptable
impact on golden eagles, according to Scottish Natural Heritage which
yesterday announced it was formally opposing the scheme. |
| Inverness
Courier |
| ‘Windfarm would have negative impact’ |
| The planning inquiry into the Whinash windfarm development
yesterday heard about the ‘overwhelming negative impact’ it would
have on the landscape around Shap and Tebay. |
| News
& Star |
| Windfarm will be blot on landscape |
| Building Britain's biggest windfarm on land near Tebay
would create substantial visual and landscape impacts, compromising
the natural beauty of the surrounding national parks, a public inquiry
heard this week. |
| This
Is The Lake District |
| Lowthers fall out over windfarm |
| An established Cumbrian family is embroiled in a dispute
over plans to site a wind farm on their land. |
| The
Cumberland News |
| Ireleth fears over new turbine bosses |
| A parish council has expressed concern after the operator
of a local wind farm changed without notice. |
| North-west
Evening Mail |
| Wind farms 'to alter Maltby skyline' |
| Maltby's skyline could be dramatically altered by the
addition of wind farms, it was announced this week. |
| Dinnington
Today |
| Windfarm opponents dismiss new report |
| Activists campaigning against windfarms in the Westcountry
have dismissed as "nonsense" a new report that argues that wind power
must be made to work to help tackle the problems of climate change.
|
| this
is Devon |
| Could this be the future? |
| Wind turbines could be set to spring up around Tewkesbury.
Cheltenham-based environmentalist Jonathon Porritt says wind power
is the only way to prevent the devastating effects of climate change.
|
| this
is Gloucestershire |
| A breath of fresh air |
| A lot of people think a lot of things about wind farms.
They're ugly. They're pretty. A fascinating feat of engineering. A
necessary evil for meeting the government target of cutting carbon
emissions by 20% by 2010. |
| The
Herald |
| Electricity from apples? Core, what a green idea |
| It is well known that if you drink too much of Prince
William's favourite West Country tipple, it won't be long before the
lights go out. |
| Gloucestershire
Echo |
