Latest News - Great Response to Successful Public Meeting

Around 170 people, from a number of the villages in the area, turned up to the first public meeting organised by the StopLWF Action Group on the night of Sept 11th at the Linton Village Hall. The meeting heard a presentation by Mike Barnard on renewable energy, wind energy in particular and the specific issues that the proposed wind farm would pose for the surrounding area and the people within it. This was followed by Sue Harrison on the potential health issues and then Jane Davis, who has been forced to rent a house to get a good nights sleep due to intolerable noise intrusion from a wind farm 930m away from her house, spoke about the horrific experiences of her family once a wind farm started operating near her house. There was then input from the floor of the meeting. The overwhelming view of the meeting was opposed to the proposed scheme with only one person speaking in favour. Over 60 new members of the campaign were signed up, in addition to the existing members present, and many pledges of support received. The meeting lasted a good two and a half hours and the Action Group were delighted with the response and the fact that awareness of the scheme was starting to spread.

Last Saturday in addition to flying the blimp, we showed Sir Alan Haselhurst the proposed site, he has given us the following quote which make his view on this scheme very clear indeed;