Press Coverage

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Action group celebrates victory in first round of turbine battle
Blackmore Vale Magazine
12 March 2004

Wind turbines - an incongruous and disproportionate feature on Vale skyline
Blackmore Vale Magazine
12 March 2004

Ecotricity boss kicks up storm
Western Gazette
11 March 2004

Tory’s tryst to tilt at turbines
Western Gazette
26 February 2004

Let’s make the Westcountry a ‘green’ peninsula.
Western Morning News
13 February 2004

May makes way to turbine site
Western Gazette
12 February 2004

Public stopped wind turbines
Western Gazette
12 February 2004

Anger at council’s support for turbines
Western Gazette
29 January 2004

MP joins ranks to save the vale
Western Gazette
29 January 2004

Fair Wind for Protest Group
South Wales Evening Post
28 January 2004

Wind farms threaten the red kite
The Observer
25 January 2004

Wind farms ‘make people sick who live up to a mile away’
The Sunday Telegraph
25 January 2004

Cucklington turbines “thin end of wedge” says MP
Blackmore Vale Magazine
16 January 2004

The answer is not blowing in the wind (and others)
Blackmore Vale Magazine
16 January 2004

Anti-turbine team builds up steam
Western Gazette
15 January 2004

Celebrity support for wind farm opponents
Western Gazette
15 January 2004

Couple win £ 15,000 over “secret” wind farm
Daily Mail
10 January 2004

Wind farms ruin peace, says judge
The Times
10 January 2004

Council puts energy into turbines debate
Western Gazette
1 January 2004

Let’s be power base
Western Gazette
1 January 2004

Countryside is under-valued
Western Gazette
1 January 2004

Wind Farms blow up a big storm.
Yeovil Times
31 December 2003

Turbine crusaders fight on with pens
Western Gazette
18 December 2003

Edmonds fights plans to build wind farms
The Daily Telegraph
8th December 2003

“Loaded dice” on power station
Western Morning News
8th December 2003

We are in the face of a (wind farm) epidemic
Western Morning News
8th December 2003

Turbine storm blows on
Blackmore Vale Magazine
5th December 2003.

Offshore generation is a better option
Noel Edmonds in the Western Morning News
27 November 2003

TV Botanist opposed to windfarms
Western Morning News
26 November 2003

Too unreliable to base our future on
Noel Edmonds in the Western Morning News
25 November 2003

Wind turbines are an “enormous threat”
Noel Edmonds in the Western Morning News
24 November 2003

Turbines top poll of eyesore sites
Western Gazette
20 November 2003

Tilting against Windmills
Readers Digest
November 2003

Eyesore wind farms attract icy blast
The Times
13 November 2003

Windfarms come top in architectural eyesores poll
The Independent
13 November 2003

Principal shareholder of Ecotricity claims “No ‘collusion’ over siting of wind farm”
The Sunday Telegraph
9th November 2003

South West: Putting the wind up the council
BBC
7 November 2003

Shadow agriculture spokesman meets Save the Vale campaigners
Blackmore Vale Magazine
7th November 2003

Special Report, in association with The Carbon Trust, featuring:
· The power of wonderful innovation
· Science, technology and grass-roots simplicity
· The nine finalists (for The Carbon Trust’s Innovation Awards).
Business Section
Sunday Telegraph
9th November 2003
 

MoD takes a tilt at windfarms
Sunday Telegraph
9th November 2003

 

Wind Farm fears grow.
Guidelines pave way for more wind farms.
Moor water energy plan.
Western Morning News
6 November 2003

 

Turbines’ objectors take fight to the top
Western Gazette
6 November 2003

 

Special Report, in association with The Carbon Trust, featuring:
· Creative ideas to protect Planet Earth
· Small Businesses show the power of flair
· Finalists for The Carbon Trust’s Innovation Awards.
Business Section
Sunday Telegraph
2nd November 2003

 

Hardy's revered beauty spot under threat of 'devastation' from giant wind turbines
Sunday Telegraph
2nd November 2003

 

Winds of change
Western Gazette
30 October 2003

 

Like philistines, we desecrate our landscape
The Times
24 October 2003

 

MP Joins protest group in fight against wind turbines
Blackmore Vale Magazine
24 October 2003

 

Business group attacks EU support for wind
Environment Daily 1537
23 October 2003

 

Vote wobbles turbine plans
Western Gazette
23 October 2003

 

Wind Turbines - the engineering facts
Blackmore Vale Magazine
17 October 2003

 

Rural guardians warn against unleashing wind power
The Guardian
15 October 2003

 

Wind turbine plan opposed
The Salisbury Journal
9 October 2003.

 

All hiss & wind - Clarkson on Saturday
The Sun
4 October 2003.

 

Save the Vale
Blackmore Vale Magazine
3 October 2003

 

Residents take their turbines gripe to top
Western Gazette
2 October 2003

 

Wind farm revolt blows stronger
Blackmore Vale Magazine
5 September 2003

 

Wind turbines ‘will be seen from 17 km’
Western Gazette
4 September 2003

 

Voters put wind up Lib Dems
The Daily Telegraph
3 September 2003

 


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