Mon 20 Oct 2008
| November 3, 2008 | ||
| 1:30 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
Following our previous story that Infinergy, the company behind the proposed Wind Farm at Masters Pitt in East Stoke, has cut the number of planned wind turbines from 6 to 4, comes news that it is holding a public exhibition at the Springfield Country Hotel in Wareham on Monday, November 3 from 1.30-8.30pm.
The exhibition will provide information about the revised proposal, photomontages and other research material, and consultants will be on-hand to answer questions and take feedback.
The revised plan has the potential of generating 9.2MW of electricity, which represents 11-13% of Dorset’s renewable energy target of 68-84MW of electricity from renewable sources by 2010.
If the government is to reach its target of wind-power generating a third of the UK’s energy needs by 2020, it is small wind-farms like this, as well as the larger scale projects, that will need to overcome local opposition and be approved and built much more quickly than they have in the past.
October 26th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Whilst I am a supporter of green energies I do not think there is any location in Dorset suitable for these turbines. These things are absolutely huge . I spent some time in Scotland this summer and saw several large windfarms which did not impact on the landscape too much. However this is only because the Scottish landscape itself is on such a large scale and the turbines are only visible from the road at a distance of several miles. There are several turbines around the outskirts of London that the road passes quite close to and there is no getting away from the fact that they are enormous eyesores - they make pylons look quite small and insignificant. The images on the website are quite misleading as to the impact they would have on the landscape.