Blog by Michael Donnelly
A new company is targeting Britain’s ugliest areas to build a string of new windfarms…
Love them or loathe them wind turbines are on the march across the country and wherever they go you can be assured of one thing: controversy.
With this in mind, March 7th's Sunday Times ran an article about the company called Airvolution Energy that wants to build at least 60 small wind farms across the UK.
Its big idea is to avoid protracted planning wrangles by only building the windfarms in areas that are already blighted by industry and by keeping them small (no more than four turbines per site).
The paper quotes Airvolution chairman Kevin McNamara saying: “Our ideal site is not idyllic pastureland but a place that has already been blighted.”
It’s a clever idea, windfarms are more likely to add to a grim industrial landscape than detract from it, so they are likely to attract fewer objections.
The full story can be read here.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article7052505
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