Wind Turbines In Altham - Page 3

Gayle · 23-10-2006, 20:50

Well it could have been 4 as it was a while since I read it too (about 10 hours).

One of us is going to have to check.

katex · 23-10-2006, 20:50

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Originally Posted by K.S.H

Says in telegraph tonight they had to fight for 4 year to get planning permission for it

Really K.S.H. ? Well, I for one am glad they got it ... just seems a shame that wasn't cross-referenced with HBC as so close to the border and what we all see from Accy when coming over the tops.

Perhaps planning applications should be thought out this way in the future, not by land boundaries, but by visual boundaries too . ?

K.S.H · 23-10-2006, 21:00

Well it distracted me a few times from the Clayton end on Saturday

K.S.H · 23-10-2006, 21:01

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Originally Posted by Gayle

Well it could have been 4 as it was a while since I read it too (about 10 hours).

One of us is going to have to check.

Go on then, i'll let you

Karma for the winner - but i'll check if you say it was 6 hour

Gayle · 23-10-2006, 21:03

Hate to say this K.S.H. but my memory's better than yours

Farmer Harvests Energy From Sky (from Lancashire Telegraph)

I checked.

K.S.H · 23-10-2006, 21:13

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Originally Posted by Gayle

Hate to say this K.S.H. but my memory's better than yours

Farmer Harvests Energy From Sky (from Lancashire Telegraph)

I checked.

They might have got it wrong in print, might be 4 in the paper.
But i'll trust you, trouble is I have to spread it about before I can give you some karma

Gayle · 23-10-2006, 21:16

It's ok - I'd say take a raincheck but you'll probably forget!

K.S.H · 23-10-2006, 21:18

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Originally Posted by Gayle

It's ok - I'd say take a raincheck but you'll probably forget!

You will have to remind me, anyone know how much you have to give before you can leave for someone a 2nd time?

katex · 23-10-2006, 21:21

Go for it Gayle .. hey, just love the way the lady describes it as a 'slick ergonomic design' couldn't have put it better meself ...

Hey, where's A-B gone anyway .. thought we were going to get some piccies tonight ?

WillowTheWhisp · 24-10-2006, 00:10

We saw one of the blades heading off down the A56 on Saturday as we were leaving for the weekend. We hadn't a clue that a new wind farm was under construction and we sort of looked back and went "What's that?????" and I said it looked like an aeroplane propellor blade but Busman said it was too big. It never occurrd to us that it was a wind generator thingy.

I don't dislike them either. I've always llooked out for them whenever I've been past Cliviger.

entwisi · 24-10-2006, 06:45

That would be the wagon that blocked the A56 then Willow

WillowTheWhisp · 24-10-2006, 14:09

Yes the road was closed and I think it was being escorted by the police.

Anyway we've just been and taken these photos and personally I find nothing obtrusive in them at all. The first three were taken from the network 65 business park and the last three were taken from the A679.

SPUGGIE J · 24-10-2006, 14:49

Tie your washing to them and on a fine dry windy day the close would be ready for ironing in no time.If it sould be in winter think of the leccy saved from not using a drier.

Tealeaf · 25-10-2006, 15:08

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Originally Posted by accymel

Yeh strangely we spotted the turnbines from the clayton end yesterday LOL

Errr...I seem to recall I pointed out the turbines to you and Harwood Red at half time. I assume Turnbines are summat like Woodbines and you spotted some fag ends on the floor.

On a somewhat different note, it is somewhat dispondant to see that Burnley Council were overruled by central government in their objections to this scheme. So much for local democracy (although with what we now know of vote rigging in Burnley, it is debatable whether Burnley is a local democracy).

Still on the Burnley theme, the next Lord Mayor of the City of London is a Burnley lad. You know where you got that information first - on here, and not in the LET or Granada news. At least one member of Accy web will be in the formal procession on November 11th, and it ain't me.

Acrylic-bob · 28-10-2006, 16:27

Hi all. Sorry to have been absent for most of this discussion, but half term in Blackpool has been utter madness this year, six days of 16 hour shifts and an all-nighter have left me a shattered ruin of my former self - one more week to go and then I can R E L A A A A X !.

Anyway, it has, as always, been most instructive to read your comments and opinions. I stand corrected about the relative jurisdiction of the the turbines and my thanks for the the two telegraph articles. Particularly the one about the gormless farmers wife, I hope she thinks they are still wonderful when she cannot get a good nights sleep for the constant low frequency sound these things generate.

It does kinda make you wonder what sort of democracy we live in when the very powers which are supposed to represent the wishes of the people seem so utterly contemptuous of those wishes, particularly when they are at varience with those of the authority concerned. I am minded of the waste re-processing site at Huncoat Power Station, very democratic, that decision!

Speaking personally, I have no objection to turbines in principle, obviously they are a necessity. But I would have thought that more care and consideration could have been brought to bear when deciding where to site the wretched things.