Save Our Salcey

The government has finally seen through the wind-farm scam – but why did it take them so long?

To the nearest whole number, the percentage of the world’s energy that comes from wind turbines today is: zero. Despite the regressive subsidy (pushing pensioners into fuel poverty while improving the wine cellars of grand estates), despite tearing rural communities apart, killing jobs, despoiling views, erecting pylons, felling forests, killing bats and eagles, causing industrial accidents, clogging motorways, polluting lakes in Inner Mongolia with the toxic and radioactive tailings from refining neodymium, a ton of which is in the average turbine — despite all this, the total energy generated each day by wind has yet to reach half a per cent worldwide.

The planning application for the Wind Farm at Salcey Green was due to be determined by Milton Keynes Council in October 2011, however the Council ruled that the planning application did not contain sufficient environmental information. (Regulation 19)
Ecotricity have been asked to provide the missing information and conduct further wildlife surveys.

12 Jun 2011

In an interview we publish today, Sir Roger Carr, the new president of the CBI, warns that the rising cost of energy will lead to many British manufacturers relocating their businesses abroad.

THE LOCAL authority has forced Scottish and Southern Electricity to shut down a Sutherland wind farm after the company breached planning controls by failing to deal with excessive noise from the development.