Navitus Bay wind farm given thumbs down at meeting

5:00pm Saturday 16th March 2013 in News

A PUBLIC meeting on the proposed wind farm off the Dorset coast saw the majority of attendees vote against the controversial plans.

The meeting, organised by Highcliffe Community Association, took place at Highcliffe Methodist Church with more than 250 residents attending.

Cases for and against the wind farm were presented by Navitus Bay Development Ltd and opposition group Challenge Navitus with residents able to ask questions of both sides of the debate.

Chairman of the meeting, Dorset County councillor Alan Griffiths, said: “I was astonished at the turnout from local people who wanted to know what effect this massive wind farm could have on them and their families.

“Many of our 1,700 members were there but we had put leaflets out notifying people about the meeting and the response from Highcliffe was fantastic.

“A vote was taken towards the end of the meeting and local people voted 11 in favour, eight uncertain and 234 against the wind farm.”

Comments(7)

Yankee1 says...
10:23pm Sat 16 Mar 13

Here is a way forward:

Navitus gives every home within sight of this monstrosity free electricity for ten years.

That for-profit company is laughing at the gullibility of tree huggers who think our sacrifice will change the planet.

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jakeysredd says...
10:38pm Sat 16 Mar 13

Not going to be a bad view of the bay now the IMAX MONSTROSITY is going, Brilliant new idea, lets completely **** up the view with lovely windmills,

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Tripod says...
1:13pm Sun 17 Mar 13

I wonder how many of those protesting can even see that far.

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Baywolf says...
1:59pm Sun 17 Mar 13

Wind Farms have proven uneconomical for the cost to build and maintain add to the fact they produce so little energy hence the huge numbers needed to produce a meaningfull amount, which is a blight on any landscape either on land or at sea, to put it in an area of natural beauty such as the south coast is rape of nature.

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Yankee1 says...
9:24pm Sun 17 Mar 13

Baywolf wrote:
Wind Farms have proven uneconomical for the cost to build and maintain add to the fact they produce so little energy hence the huge numbers needed to produce a meaningfull amount, which is a blight on any landscape either on land or at sea, to put it in an area of natural beauty such as the south coast is rape of nature.
And those are land based ones. Sea based ones have infinitely more problems.

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Phixer says...
10:11am Mon 18 Mar 13

Baywolf wrote:
Wind Farms have proven uneconomical for the cost to build and maintain add to the fact they produce so little energy hence the huge numbers needed to produce a meaningfull amount, which is a blight on any landscape either on land or at sea, to put it in an area of natural beauty such as the south coast is rape of nature.
Yes but they make our politicians and tree-huggers feel good about themselves while wasting other peoples taxes.

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Dr Strangelove says...
9:25pm Mon 18 Mar 13

How many British gas share holders made a killing when we went from coal to gas power stations thanks to the conservative gov in the 1980ies. Funny how the agenda is negative to any other source that could reduce their stolen investment.

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