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Wind farm plan worries monks
Benedictine monks living in the hills outside Grahamstown are angry about plans to build a wind farm near their monastery. Brother Timothy Jolley, the Mariya uMama weThemba Monastery prior, yesterday said the Anglican monks feared the noise and visual impact of the 135m turbines would forever destroy the "contemplative life" they had worked so hard to achieve over the past 12 years.
February 23, 2010
by David MacGregor
in Dispatch Online
Benedictine monks living in the hills outside Grahamstown are angry about plans to build a wind farm near their monastery. Brother Timothy Jolley, the Mariya uMama weThemba Monastery prior, yesterday said the Anglican monks feared the noise and visual impact of the 135m turbines would forever destroy the "contemplative life" they had worked so hard to achieve over the past 12 years.
"We were never properly consulted from the beginning," he said.
According to Jolley, the monks do not object "to the value of wind farms and sustainable energy" but rather their location. Besides the "aesthetic impact", the "Brothers were... [continue via Web link]
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