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Rainworth windfarm a step closer



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Published Date: 26 August 2008
Email Helen Lambourne

ENERGY bosses planning to build a five-turbine windfarm in Rainworth have started initial investigation work at the site.
Npower renewables gained planning permission last year for the giant turbines at Lindhurst Farm, off Blidworth Lane, despite objections from residents who said they would be too close to their homes.

Now the company is carrying out investigation
work for around a week at the site –– but stress the construction of the structures will not begin yet.

Development manager Cath Stevenson told Chad: "This activity on the wind farm site doesn't mark the start of construction — it is just preliminary investigation work.

"Once construction begins, npower renewables will issue a newsletter to local residents explaining the process and what will be happening on the site."

The windfarm aims to create green energy for at least 4,700 homes and plans were approved by Newark & Sherwood District Council's Planning Committee last September.

For further information visit Email Helen Lambourne">www.npower-renewables.com/lindhurst or contact 01793 892053.




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P Armitage,

Rainworth 29/08/2008 11:26:47
So much for listening to the views of the local people!

They - and the planning authorities could not care a jot!

We now ought to be thinking of direct action against these money-grabbing parasites.

If their planning application had b een turned down nPower could have appealed. Asd it went through we should have the same rights and be able to appeal but tyhe law does niot let us do this.
Is this justice and democracy at work - if so it stinks!
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Alpha_Geek,

08/09/2008 23:55:45
I'm sorry, I have missed the objections to this, what are they?

I'm all for renewable energy, and while on the face of it I understand objections to the incinerator, I am ignorant to this issue. So what are the problems with these wind turbines?
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DaveyDale,

LOUTH 12/09/2008 14:58:34
I am an ex-resident of Blidworth, now living near Louth in a Lincolnshire village. We are surrounded by windfarms here and they pose no problems at all. FIVE? - We get at least 15 at a time. There are 54 in the sea down at Skegness and 25 nearby at Conisholme. Near Mablethorpe are another 15. I have stood underneath these and all you can hear is a gentle "swish" of the blades, even at their highest speed. They are geared down during high winds and 'up' in conditions you would think are still - but they still move. They give clean, green power with no need for men to ruin their health to produce it, or be held to blackmail by foreign governments.
What do you think about the rows of ugly pylons, marching over the land? The choking smoke from coal-fired chimneys and power staions of not so long ago, that eventually gave so many health problems to so much of the population?
Yes, the old models were subject to vibration, but the ones built within the last few years are very quiet, thanks to new bearing and insulation technology. What do we want to leave our grandchildren? get the facts, nimbies - we HAVE to do something. If you think you may suffer a little inconvenience, think about the yorkshire homes falling into the sea. No compensation, just a lost home and homeless people - directly caused by burning fossil fuels.
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