A Councillor was threatened not to vote in favour of a wind farm in the East Riding of Yorkshire this week.
Councillor Chapman was left a phone message at 9pm on the day before the planning meeting to consider two wind farm applications. The message left was “If you vote for the wind farms you will forever be looking over your shoulder“.
Despite recieving more than 430 letters of support, the Spaldington Airfield wind farm application in the East Riding of Yorkshire was refused on Thursday, together with a nearby wind farm at Spaldington Common. The Spaldington Airfield wind farm, proposed by wind farm developer Coriolis Energy had more letters of support than opposition and was recommended for approval by East Riding’s planning officer.
Coriolis Development Director Vicky Portwain said:
“It is upsetting that Councillors failed to take into consideration the environmental and energy benefits of the Spaldington Airfield wind farm. We believe that the wrong decision was made and that decision makers need to be bold when dealing with renewable energy proposals that meet policy requirements. We will now consider our options, including that of appealing the decision“.
Both local residents and environmental campaigners spoke in favour of the application, however other local residents, including Conservative MP David Davis who lives under a mile from the proposed wind farm opposed the scheme.
Nick
September 4th, 2010
What a biased article. If a councillor was threatened then the police should look into it- I am sure they would be able to trace the call. How about mentioning the number of people that objected. How about mentioning how most of the letters of support were obtained. You don’t mention the Spaldington Common wind farm where their where a miniscule number of letters of support and nearly 400 objecting.
One of the letters of objection was from a resident at Lisset windfarm that has been objecting about the noise there for a year.
The planning officer actually recomended both for deferal.
Enough is enough, at last there is support for the residents in this village that would have had their lives made Hell by these Noisy monstrosities. There is a place for these and it is not next to peoples houses.
These do little to help the environment and are just a money making venture paid in part for by the Taxpayer.
Take a look at the figures for the National output of wind turbines and you will see that on some days it doesn’t even equal the output of one turbine and on many days it is misicule.
We should be looking at projects where output can be predicted e.g. tidal and where we don’t have to depend on power stations like Drax to be there for when the wind doesn’t blow.
Adam Bell
September 6th, 2010
Nick, Nick, Nick. Bias isn’t the same as ’someone said something I don’t like, therefore it must be biased’. I’m sure the police are looking into the threat. Perhaps you’d like to tell us how the letters of support were obtained – are you happy to make a public statement including your full name, to show that you’re not afraid of the company taking you to court for libel?
If you want to have a look at the output of wind turbines, you can see the NETA figures here: http://www.bmreports.com/bsp/bsp_home.htm
You’ll see that what you just said is nonsense. There has been no occasion on which output has come even close to only one turbine. When I wrote this, 1,721MW were being generated by wind power – for comparison’s sake, the average turbine generates 2MW.
Nick
September 16th, 2010
Adam,Adam,Adam get your dictionary out and look up what the word means! Take a look at the councils web site and see the leters for yourself and take a look at the historical data not just a few days.
chas
October 22nd, 2010
adam bell supports wind farms that are nowhere near him so he has no right to interfere with other people’s nlives when he has no intention of living near these beasts
chas
October 22nd, 2010
er. my comment was deleted because you didn’t agree with it?