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SOME people call them windfarms, others describe them as ‘power stations in inappropriate locations', but all agree that one alternative energy source is an issue dividing communities in Northumberland. Alastair Gilmour reports in the first of five features this week looking at the controversial windfarm issue.
July 10, 2007
by Alastair Gilmour
in The Journal
SOME people call them windfarms, others describe them as ‘power stations in inappropriate locations', but all agree that one alternative energy source is an issue dividing communities in Northumberland. Alastair Gilmour reports in the first of five features this week looking at the controversial windfarm issue.
THERE is a better range of energy options for Northumberland than 71 giant wind turbines planned around Alnwick and Berwick.
So says Dr John Constable, director of policy and research at the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF) and one of the country's leading authorities on renewable energy.
He was speaking at last weekend's Border Green Festival in Tweedmouth,... [continue via Web link]
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