LOCATION/TYPE

NEWS HOME

[ exact phrase in "" • results by date ]

[ Google-powered • results by relevance ]


Archive
RSS

Add NWW headlines to your site (click here)

Get weekly updates

WHAT TO DO
when your community is targeted

RSS

RSS feeds and more

Keep Wind Watch online and independent!

Donate via Paypal

Donate via Stripe

Selected Documents

All Documents

Research Links

Alerts

Press Releases

FAQs

Campaign Material

Photos & Graphics

Videos

Allied Groups

Wind Watch is a registered educational charity, founded in 2005.

News Watch Home

Hundreds slam turbine plan 

Credit:  Peter Cargill | Perthshire Advertiser / Daily Record | 6 Jul 2018 | www.dailyrecord.co.uk ~~

A firm’s bid to heighten four turbines planned at Binn Farm near Glenfarg has met strong opposition.

Over 250 people have signed a petition urging Perth and Kinross Council not to consider letting Green Cat Renewables build the already approved turbines any higher than 115 metres while another 36 individuals have sent in detailed objections.

And community councils, for Bridge of Earn and Abernethy, have sent objections too with the latter claiming Green Cat Renewables is using dated information to justify heightening the turbines by another nine metres.

The petition, set up on the change.org website by a Jane Donaldson, claims the effects of the four taller turbines on locals will be “horrendous”.

It says: “It is recommended that turbines of this scale should not be placed less than 2km from a settlement (which could be as little as one home) – however, this fact was ignored by councillors … in 2015 when they granted permission for four turbines at 114.9m.

“This was never implemented as they [previous applicants Element Power] missed out on subsidies so would not get the vast government payout. With this new application to increase the turbines by a further nine metres, the local residents will be unable to live safely and comfortably in their homes due to adverse noise and shadow flicker.

“This is a beautiful, quiet place where people enjoy the peace and beauty of the countryside.”

Meanwhile the chair of Abernethy and District Community Council has said: “The applicant confirms that this is a new application but is endeavouring to rely on key documents submitted by the previous applicant in 2014.

“Information presented within the previous application [confirmed] that 52 dwellings will experience ‘significant and adverse visual effects from the proposed development’. We believe that the impact of these larger proposed turbines will prove even greater.

“Abernethy Glen is enjoyed by many people who come to enjoy the area, visiting local viewpoints at Castle Law and Pitmedden Forest, all of which will be devastated by views of the wind turbines.”

But Green Cat Renewables say: “Whilst the Binn Wind Farm would be a prominent feature for some local range receptors, the increase in height from 115m to 124m is not particularly apparent.

“Only increasing the hub height and keeping the rotor diameter the same allows the development to have much of the same landscape and visual impacts as the approved scheme. A nine metre increase is fairly modest and does not cause any further landscape and visual effects.”

The application awaits a decision from PKC.

Source:  Peter Cargill | Perthshire Advertiser / Daily Record | 6 Jul 2018 | www.dailyrecord.co.uk

This article is the work of the source indicated. Any opinions expressed in it are not necessarily those of National Wind Watch.

The copyright of this article resides with the author or publisher indicated. As part of its noncommercial educational effort to present the environmental, social, scientific, and economic issues of large-scale wind power development to a global audience seeking such information, National Wind Watch endeavors to observe “fair use” as provided for in section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law and similar “fair dealing” provisions of the copyright laws of other nations. Send requests to excerpt, general inquiries, and comments via e-mail.

Wind Watch relies entirely
on User Funding
   Donate via Paypal
(via Paypal)
Donate via Stripe
(via Stripe)

Share:

e-mail X FB LI TG TG Share


News Watch Home

Get the Facts
CONTACT DONATE PRIVACY ABOUT SEARCH
© National Wind Watch, Inc.
Use of copyrighted material adheres to Fair Use.
"Wind Watch" is a registered trademark.

 Follow:

Wind Watch on X Wind Watch on Facebook

Wind Watch on Linked In Wind Watch on Mastodon