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Protesters hit out at ‘huge’ wind turbines
Four giant wind turbines planned for the heart of Northumberland will create landscape features visible from the coastline to the Simonside Hills, protesters claim. ...Now dozens of local people have set up a protest group to fight the Todd Hill scheme, which would be within 900 metres of homes in the isolated hamlets of Pigdon, Abshields and Benridge.
January 21, 2009
by Dave Black
in The Journal
Four giant wind turbines planned for the heart of Northumberland will create landscape features visible from the coastline to the Simonside Hills, protesters claim.
Green power company Novera Energy wants to build the turbines - each towering 101 metres from base to blade tip - at Todd Hill, six kilometres north-west of Morpeth.
The scheme is one of a number of wind farm proposals, by Novera Energy and other developers, taking shape in the hinterland surrounding Morpeth, including sites at Wingates and Longhirst.
Now dozens of local people have set up a protest group to fight the Todd Hill scheme, which would be within... [continue via Web link]
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