Special report

Windfarm debate

PROPOSALS by United Utilities and Peel Holdings to build giant wind turbines on the moors above Rochdale have provoked much debate, and a campaign to stop them being built has been mounted by residents concerned about the effect they might have on the town's surrounding countryside. See below for all the latest news on the issue ...

 

Moor the merrier for campaigner's birthday

IT WAS Councillor Ann Metcalfe's 60th birthday on Wednesday. Yet, at the end of a very long day, the veteran anti-windfarm campaigner might have found it difficult to summon enough breath to blow out the candles on her birthday cake.

Power giants pull out of windfarm bid

UNITED Utilities has decided to pull out of the controversial £50M Scout and Knowl Moor windfarm project in a move that has surprised anti-windfarm campaigners.


 

Report could blow windfarm off course

ON the eve of the re-opening of the Scout and Knowl Moor windfarm inquiry, opponents of the plan have been boosted by a report which claims turbines are an expensive and inefficient way of generating sustainable energy.

Protestors line up to have a say

WORKING folk will get the chance to have their say after all at the wind farm inquiry - without having to take time off.

 

Opening salvos in windfarm public inquiry

THE public inquiry into the £50M Scout Moor windfarm began this week with all sides trying to score some early points in what looks like being a long, drawn-out battle.