On Wednesday, over 200 people, including campaigners, residents and parish councilors from the southwestern county of Cornwall attended the meeting over plans to erect 16 large turbines late.
Cornwall council planners are considering revised plans from Community Windpower Limited to build 130 meter-tall turbines near a large natural forest, Davidstow Woods.
Protesters speaking at the event, which saw crowds spilling out into Clease Hall in the town of Camelford, were outraged at the plans. The government’s has proposed to build a large array of wind farms across the UK by the end of the decade.
The chairman of the Camel Valley and Bodmin Moor Protection Society, Richard Vyvyan-Robinson, speaking at the meeting, said: “Bodmin Moor is unique, its wildness and freedom from all kinds of construction.”
He added that the wind farm, “would make a terrible visual intrusion in to the space and it really shouldn’t be allowed.”
Cornwall Councillor Scott Mann said, “It’s about time we said no to central government and sorted it out for the people of Cornwall.”
Meanwhile on September 19, the government apologised to people in Cornwall for the Camelford water poisoning in 1988, when 20 tonnes of aluminum sulphate was tipped in the wrong tank at a plant, which contaminated the water of 20,000 homes.
At the start of August 2013, the amount of wind turbines installed in Britain was almost 5,000 and there are plans to build up to 2,300 more by the end of 2020.
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