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Families fight windfarm plan
More than 200 people gathered to protest against plans to build a windfarm with up to 17 wind turbines and a biomass factory at a former airfield.
Developers want to turn Chelveston Airfield and its redundant Ministry of Defence buildings into a major new renewable energy plant, but action group Preserve wants to protect the greenfield site.
October 25, 2006
in Evening Telegraph
More than 200 people gathered to protest against plans to build a windfarm with up to 17 wind turbines and a biomass factory at a former airfield.
Developers want to turn Chelveston Airfield and its redundant Ministry of Defence buildings into a major new renewable energy plant, but action group Preserve wants to protect the greenfield site.
They claim the turbines could be as tall as St Paul’s Cathedral, standing at 364ft.
On Sunday they met at the airfield to walk along its four miles of public footpaths which were re-opened last week thanks to years of pressure by the... [continue via Web link]
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