Campaigners have won a first-round battle against plans to build six gigantic wind turbines. Scottish Power Renewables has withdrawn a planning appli-cation for the 410ft machines at Neslam Farm, Sempringham Fen after objections from villagers and the Ministry of Defence. The MoD said the turbines would interfere with radar systems at RAF Cranwell and RAF Cottesmore.

A controversial windfarm on the border of Stockton and Hambleton has hit another hurdle. Yesterday, Hambleton District Council refused an application for two 125m wind turbines near the villages of Hilton and Seamer. The decision comes two months after neighbouring planning authority Stockton approved three turbines for the same scheme.

Opponents of a windfarm planned for the outskirts of Carlisle have raised £21,000 to fund their fight against it. A public inquiry is to begin into plans for a three-turbine windfarm near Cumwhinton after Bolsterstone Energy appealed against Carlisle City Council's decision to turn their planing application down.

Plans for the world's biggest wind farm off Britain's coast have been blown off course - by faulty windmills built on the cheap in China. The eco-project's 140 giant turbine towers were assembled by Chinese steelworkers then ferried 4,500 miles on fuel-guzzling cargo ships. But serious welding faults were found in many of the structures shipped to a Dutch port.

Residents have accused an energy company of trying to "steam roller" a wind farm next to a village described as a "jewel in the crown". RWE npower renewables is in the process of erecting a 60 metre - or 190 foot - anemometry (met) mast on a site called Stobhill next to the medieval hamlet of Bolam, near West Auckland, County Durham.

Building 14 giant turbines around a small East Yorkshire village would be "ludicrous" according to local people. Two wind farm companies plan to build the turbines at Spaldington, near Goole, which would be over three times higher than nearby Howden Minster. ...Residents held a public meeting last night but admit they feel powerless in the Government's rush to meet EU targets.

The Conservatives' Shadow Local Government Minister has told Holderness protestors he will change the rules to give local people more say on planning applications such as wind farms. Bob Neill MP came to the area at the invitation of Graham Stuart MP in response to complaints from the East Riding of Yorkshire Council and local people that the powers of decision have been removed from local people by the Government.

BP is expanding its wind power electricity generation capacity in the United States but is shedding an Indian unit, which has been sold to Green Infra Limited of India. BP said Green Infra Limited purchased its subsidiary, BP Energy India Private Limited, for a total cash-free, debt-free enterprise value of about $95 million.

A planned wind turbine which sparked a backlash in Outwood has been scrapped because the site was too close to a helicopter landing site. When Coca-Cola announced plans for a 400-ft turbine at its warehouse at Wakefield 41 industrial estate last October, nearby residents were not impressed.

Windsave, the high-profile Scottish developer of the ‘roof windmill', has gone into liquidation, The Herald can reveal. Tory leader David Cameron and former energy minister Brian Wilson are among those to have installed windmills on their roofs amid the green energy revolution ...The venture received a blow when in a test of the £1500 Windsave turbine, consumer group Which? found that in a six-month period it used more electricity than it generated.

People left a public meeting anxious and frustrated having struggled to find out more information about a proposed wind farm at Heckington Fen, near Sleaford. Project developers Andrew Muir and Jamie Baldwin for Ecotricity attended a public meeting at Heckington Village on Monday night called by the parish council as a fact finding exercise for all parties about the proposed 50MW-plus wind farm on land at East Heckington, to the east of Sidebar Lane.

Christopher Moran, a self-made financier from London with links to the Conservative Party, owns the 40,000-acre Glenfiddich and Cabrach estate on Speyside, south of Dufftown. A plan to build 59 wind turbines on the estate is due to be considered by Moray Council at the end of this month. Moran has been reprimanded for business misconduct in the past, and his estate has one of the worst records for wildlife crime in Scotland. Yet now he stands to make more than £20m from the wind farm over the next 25 years.

Western Isles Council has approved a controversial giant £120million wind farm for Eishken on Lewis. ...There was no debate or discussion on the issue, so councillors unanimously backed the building of 39 huge turbines on the South Lochs estate. ...Campaigners are furious that the Government has not required a brand new planning application for the latest bid which would have resulted in a more thorough consultation.

A conservation charity fears allegedly inaccurate claims of long-term economic benefit may lead to the Scottish Government approving a major windfarm on Lewis, despite environmental concerns. A report, commissioned by the John Muir Trust, claims that the benefits of the Muaitheabhal windfarm have been "grossly exaggerated" by the developer, Beinn Mhor Power.

Developers of wind turbines and other energy schemes need to learn to work with - not against - local communities to get their plans approved, according to a new UK government study. There's BLOT- Belvoir Locals Opposing Turbines, there's HALT in Beccles, there's AMP in Matlock and SOUL- Save Our Unspoiled Landscape in Berwickshire. All over the country there are groups - more than 150 of them at the last count - fighting against renewable energy projects in their neighbourhoods.

Last month, the government announced plans to boost the green energy sector, yet within weeks Vestas UK, the UK's only manufacturer of wind turbine blades, closed its plant on the Isle of Wight. The Report's Simon Cox examines the obstacles which could prevent the government's green rhetoric turning into reality.

Plans for a windfarm on the ridge of a popular north-east hill which attracted hundreds of objections have been thrown out by councillors. The bid for a seven-turbine scheme near Cushnie, Alford, was unanimously rejected yesterday in the wake of mass public opposition. Nearly 600 letters were received by Aberdeenshire Council opposing the windfarm on Pressendye hill, three miles from the border with Cairngorms National Park.

Fast food giant McDonald's has sparked protests by bidding to build a wind turbine next to one of its restaurants ...The energy firm that is working with McDonald's on the project said it would "broadcast a positive environmental message to the local community". But residents and community leaders have accused McDonald's of using the scheme to maximise publicity - and say that having a wind turbine at a drive-through restaurant sends out conflicting signals on the environment.

Campaigners against the closure of the Vestas wind turbine factory have chained themselves to the house of the First Minister. Protestors dressed in elaborate costumes have attached themselves to the Regent's Park residence of Peter Mandelson, who has been left informally in charge of Britain while Gordon Brown is on holiday.

About 50 residents packed into Ulley's Holy Trinity Church on Monday for a last-minute meeting about the Penny Hill wind farm plan. Developers Banks Renewables have submitted a proposal for half a dozen 132m-tall turbines between the village and Thurcroft, close to the M1.