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The Mayor of Welshpool, Cllr John Meredith, said: "With such strong public feelings surrounding the proposals, surely it cannot be ignored?" http://www.windaction.org/articles/37149 http://www.windaction.org/articles/36604 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 01:03:05 GMT In a high profile hearing at the Scottish Parliament in April, Mr Trump told MSPs he is "the evidence" that the development of onshore and offshore wind power will drive tourists away. He said: "I am an expert on tourism. If you dot your landscape with these horrible, horrible structures, you will do tremendous damage." http://www.windaction.org/articles/36604 http://www.windaction.org/articles/36382 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:12:26 GMT VisitScotland's position emerged as a planning inquiry gets under way today into the Allt Duine wind farm, which would see 31 turbines built half-a-mile from the boundary of Cairngorms National Park. The intervention by the agency into the Lockerbie proposal comes days after Alex Salmond claimed wind farms "enhance our appeal as a country". http://www.windaction.org/articles/36382 http://www.windaction.org/articles/36379 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:43:48 GMT In an intervention likely to embarrass the Scottish Government, VisitScotland has said an application to put turbines on a site north of Dumfries could have a ‘detrimental effect' on tourism. Its statement comes after Alex Salmond claimed wind farms ‘enhance our appeal as a country'. http://www.windaction.org/articles/36379 http://www.windaction.org/articles/36068 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 03:47:35 GMT In a ruling, issued today, the ASA upheld complaints by Scottish Renewables that the advert gave a misleading impression of the possible consequences of the Scottish Government's wind-turbines plan and the type of turbines likely to be used in Scotland, as well as exaggerating the Scottish government's estimate for offshore wind-farm developments. http://www.windaction.org/articles/36068 http://www.windaction.org/articles/35883 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:56:01 GMT As part of their lobbying against wind turbine farms in Scotland's mountains, MCofS's Chief Officer, David Gibson is attempting to mobilise travel and tourist businesses to voice their dissent against this 'industrialisation'. http://www.windaction.org/articles/35883 http://www.windaction.org/articles/35451 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:32:34 GMT A huge offshore wind farm planned for the Bristol Channel is likely to cause "significant" landscape effects for a very limited section of Gower, the company behind it said. RWE npower renewables made the comment in its draft environmental statement for the Atlantic Array scheme. http://www.windaction.org/articles/35451 http://www.windaction.org/articles/34099 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:47:11 GMT Wind farm developer Eneco has been criticised for failing to consult tourism bosses over plans to site turbines in Poole Bay. The proposed Navitus Bay wind park, which would see turbines of around 311 feet tall situated between 10 and 17 miles out to sea, would have a major impact on Bournemouth and Poole's tourism industry. http://www.windaction.org/articles/34099 http://www.windaction.org/articles/33152 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:55:47 GMT He wrote to the First Minister at the beginning of September, saying the turbines were "disastrous and environmentally irresponsible", and left an "ugly cloud hanging over the future of the great Scottish coastline. ...People do not want to travel from all over the world to go to Scotland in order to stare out at big, ugly structures." http://www.windaction.org/articles/33152 http://www.windaction.org/articles/32630 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:44:36 GMT "As an Association we encourage green development but what is proposed for Montgomeryshire isn't green," he said. "It's the industrialisation of a rural area in the same way that South Wales was industrialised with steel works and coal mines. http://www.windaction.org/articles/32630 http://www.windaction.org/articles/31519 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:01:16 GMT Destination Dumfries and Galloway and VisitScotland have been criticised for failing to make their positions known at a recent tourism conference in Dumfries. Both organisations told the News they do not feel it was appropriate to comment on the potential threat of windfarms to the region's tourism industry. http://www.windaction.org/articles/31519 http://www.windaction.org/articles/24004 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:49:02 GMT Leaderdale and Melrose councillor John Paton-Day has called for a halt to wind farm developments in the Borders. The Lib Dem from Earlston was reacting to a letter in TheSouthern last week (October 29 issue) from Mr S. Wilson from Blairgowrie, who described how he had advised a party of 20 hillwalkers from Austria not to visit the region because "the hills have been destroyed by numerous wind farms with a lot more to come". http://www.windaction.org/articles/24004 http://www.windaction.org/articles/23531 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:36:08 GMT Campaigners fighting plans for a windfarm at Hampole were today planning to tell Doncaster councillors it was not just nearby residents who opposed the scheme. HALT - Hampole Against Large Turbines - were addressing a specially-called technical meeting for members of the council's planning committee. The protesters said hundreds of visitors to nearby Brodsworth Hall had also signed letters protesting against the plans. http://www.windaction.org/articles/23531 http://www.windaction.org/articles/23179 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:30:48 GMT The firm must apply to the Scottish Government rather than the local authority because of the scale of the plan. But Moray Council must be consulted and, if it objects, a public inquiry will be held. The government is due to make a decision on September 29. http://www.windaction.org/articles/23179 http://www.windaction.org/articles/23156 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:04:09 GMT A spate of windfarms planned for Dava Moor could become an attraction in their own right, developers behind one of the controversial proposals have hinted. The claim has been made by Dutch-owned windfarm firm Infinergy, who along with Cawdor Estate are behind proposals for the 17-turbine farm at Tom nan Clach. It comes in response to strong criticisms aired at a meeting organised in Carrbridge Village Hall on Wednesday evening by the village's community council to discuss the proposed development. http://www.windaction.org/articles/23156 http://www.windaction.org/articles/22093 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:49:57 GMT The Glenfiddich distillery in Dufftown will host a major public meeting in Moray against plans to site a wind farm in the heart of the whisky trail. ...Tourists have flocked to Moray's famous whisky trail for decades, but owners of the distillery fear visitor numbers could dry up if the plans for nearly 60 turbines get the go ahead on the nearby Glenfiddich estate which is owned by London financier Christopher Morran. http://www.windaction.org/articles/22093 http://www.windaction.org/articles/21401 Sat, 30 May 2009 03:07:09 GMT A multi-million-pound scheme to promote tourism in the South Wales Valleys will be undermined if plans for two new wind farms get the go-ahead, campaigners claim. Plans for the wind farms straddling the Ogmore and Rhondda Valleys are due to go before councillors in July, when protesters will make their feelings known by marching on the council offices in Bridgend. http://www.windaction.org/articles/21401 http://www.windaction.org/articles/21331 Sat, 23 May 2009 14:33:13 GMT Bosses of a historic Northumberland estate told a wind farm inquiry the turbines would damage tourism. Trustees of the Ford and Etal Estates also revealed they had been close to allowing turbines to be erected on their land, before pulling out of negotiations following a "backlash of public opinion". ...The estate asked the developer to consider reducing the height of the turbines but this approach was rejected. As a result, the trustees pulled out of negotiations in early 2006, incurring "considerable abortive professional fees." http://www.windaction.org/articles/21331 http://www.windaction.org/articles/19669 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:08:23 GMT Campaigners have called for the Government to safeguard North East beauty spots as The Journal reveals hundreds of wind turbines could blight the region. Our wind map reveals nearly 250 turbines could pepper the North East landscape in the next year if planning chiefs give them the go-ahead. Information provided by the region's councils indicates an influx of turbines could begin to dominate the landscape within a few years. http://www.windaction.org/articles/19669