Murphy said one of the major concerns of residents was noise. He said the city has now modified its plans to bring the noise level below 45 decibels - a standard that will address the noise issue. Residents were also concerned about the closeness of the turbines to property lines. Murphy said the setback requirements go hand in hand with noise levels so by reducing the noise levels generated by the turbines, the structures can remain located as planned.

Whatever it was happened at the weekend left the turbine without one of its 20m blades and another bent and gnarled. Ecotricity, the turbine's owners, cannot yet explain what happened. Dale Vince, founder of the renewable energy company, said on the BBC's Today programme that, whatever hit the blades it was "probably the size and weight of a cow".

Ecotricity, which owns the site, are continuing investigations and have said they are not ruling anything out - though the extent of damage was "unique". To make one of these blades fall off, or to bend it, takes a lot Dale Vince, Ecotricity.

The residents of North Gower who crowded into a small community hall to hear about the wind farm proposed for their backyard know the time for green power has come, but that didn't stop worries about the impact of giant turbines on their health and property values. ...Many of the 300 who filed through the three-hour information session supported the idea of moving to more renewable fuels, but questioned how the sight and sound of the turbines would affect them and drive down the value of their properties.

Campaigners fighting plans to build a wind farm near Bottesford were shown overwhelming support at an action meeting held in the village on Wednesday. BLOT - Belvoir Locals Oppose Turbines - organised the meeting to inform villagers about Ridgewind's plans to build eight 310ft turbines between Bottesford and Normanton.

A call has been made for the Conisholme wind farm to be closed - before someone is injured. Coun Robert Palmer, Chairman of East Lindsey District Council, says the site should be closed off to the public while an independent health and safety investigation is carried out. On Sunday morning local people woke to find a blade on one of the 89 metre high wind turbines in Fen Lane had broken off.

A local council has refused a request to postpone a meeting to debate a controversial application for 19 wind turbines in Fenland but their decision will not be binding. ...Anti wind turbine group FLAT today urged opponents of the scheme to step up their opposition and hope that as many as possible will attend the meeting "to show their opposition to the scheme."

Has the tenacle UFO got something to do with the broken blades at Conisholme? Engineers from Ecotricity are working to establish how a 20m blade mysteriously fell off a turbine at Conisholme wind farm - but residents have their own conclusions. It is believed the a blade fell off the 89m turbine and another was left badly bent on Sunday January 4.

A report written by the council's principal planning officer detailed eight reasons for refusing planning permission for four 328ft high turbines on a four hectare site on Mynydd James mountain between Cwmtillery and Blaina. ...These included worries over the stability of the ground on which the turbines would be built, the visual impact on the area and the negative effect on tourism.

Over the weekend, reports of a blade missing from one of the mammoth turbines and another blade being badly bent out of shape came to light. The cause of the damage has yet to be established, however some say it could be down to icy weather.

The Campaign to Protect Rural England's Cornwall branch (CPRE Cornwall) says local people will soon lose the chance to have their say on planning applications affecting their community. As a result the group offers to help residents fight planning applications which are against local plan policies, threaten protected landscape areas, or are generally inappropriate.

Campaigners from both sides of the England-Wales border are joining forces to save a massive landmark built more than 1,000 years ago to divide them. Villagers living in the remote areas either side of Offa's Dyke are putting aside age-old hostilities to fight plans to bring 21st century alternative technology close to the ancient monument. Welsh planning officials are pleading with their opposite numbers on the English side of the dyke to help them protect the eighth century earthworks.

Villagers battling plans for a wind farm in Worcestershire are to stage a walk through the countryside they fear will be destroyed by the proposals. Families living in the Vale of Evesham will gather tomorrow for the walk along the Wychavon Way and Blossom Trail, close to where Scottish Power Renewables is planning to build 10 turbines measuring 125m (410ft) on land owned by farmers.

Plans for a huge wind monitoring mast near Tewkesbury have sparked mass opposition. ...Wind Prospect Developments Ltd wants to install it for two years to measure wind speed and direction. It would use the information as part of its plan to have three massive wind turbines at nearby Upper Strensham. An application for the turbines has yet to be submitted, but is expected shortly.

A Norfolk action group has highlighted the lack of industry regulation on wind turbines by producing its own report. Campaign group 4Villages said there is a growing danger to the public from wind turbine accidents, with an increasing number of incidents worldwide involving giant turbines catching fire, losing propeller parts or shedding lumps of ice.

A public inquiry into a planned wind farm in Kent will see a relay system and marquee set up because so many people are expected to attend. Dover Council is expecting "significant interest" in the hearing in January. ...Council papers this year reported "considerable public opposition" to the scheme with 800 letters of objection.

New documents filed in an ongoing civil lawsuit by a Portage-area couple against the Allegheny Ridge Wind Farm say that wind energy experts duped local officials into believing the turbine sound was insignificant. Todd and Jill Stull of the Blue Knob area say that developer Gamesa Energy USA and owner Babcock & Brown misled local officials by supporting development of an ordinance addressing higher noise levels.

The British wind industry has been told to use lower figures for the amount of carbon emissions being saved by wind turbines. A long-running dispute between wind developers and the anti-wind lobby has culminated in the British Wind Energy Association being asked to use a figure half that being claimed. ...The importance of the carbon savings figure comes as wind developers are seeking to persuade planners of the benefits of their projects, compared to the various negative impacts put forward by opponents.

Councillors have refused to let a school press ahead with a plan for a wind turbine because of fears it will kill bats. Askam Village School had asked Barrow Borough Council for permission to install a 11.7-metre tall turbine in the school grounds, about 40 metres from Lots Road. But Natural England, the government agency responsible for bat conservation, objected and urged the council not to allow it.