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Objectors worried by plans for 400ft wind turbines
Opposition is growing today against plans to turn one of the largest wind farms in the UK into one of the tallest.
ScottishPower Renewables and Eurus Energy want to treble the output of "clean, green energy" at Llandinam in Mid Wales and to replace 103 45-metre (149ft) tall turbines with 42, 122-metre (400ft) machines.
When it was opened in 1992, Llandinam was one of the largest wind farms in Europe.
May 13, 2008
by Sally Williams
in Western Mail
Opposition is growing today against plans to turn one of the largest wind farms in the UK into one of the tallest.
ScottishPower Renewables and Eurus Energy want to treble the output of "clean, green energy" at Llandinam in Mid Wales and to replace 103 45-metre (149ft) tall turbines with 42, 122-metre (400ft) machines.
When it was opened in 1992, Llandinam was one of the largest wind farms in Europe.
The companies said the "newly repowered wind farm" would produce enough energy to power more than 53,000 households.
But objectors claim the new turbines could have an additional detrimental visual... [continue via Web link]
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