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1. MP backing solicitor’s fight to halt windfarm
Rochdale Observer, Friday 7 July 2006A LEGAL challenge is being made to block the planned £50M windfarm on the hills above Rochdale.
2. Windfarm closer after land swap
Rochdale Observer, Friday 12 May 2006NEW battle lines are being drawn in a bid to save the moors above Rochdale from being 'blighted' by a massive windfarm.
3. Windfarm green light devastates protesters
Rochdale Observer, Friday 27 May 2005A 26-TURBINE windfarm will be whirring away on Scout Moor in less than two years.
4. Green light for windfarm plan
Rochdale Observer, Wednesday 25 May 2005PLANS to build a massive windfarm on the moors above Rochdale were given the go-ahead today (Wednesday).
5. Moor the merrier for campaigner's birthday
Rochdale Observer, Friday 11 March 2005IT 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.
6. Power giants pull out of windfarm bid
Rochdale Observer, Monday 7 March 2005UNITED 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.
7. Report could blow windfarm off course
Rochdale Observer, Wednesday 2 March 2005ON 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.
8. Opening salvos in windfarm public inquiry
Rochdale Observer, Thursday 2 December 2004THE 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.
9. Protestors line up to have a say
Rochdale Observer, Thursday 2 December 2004WORKING folk will get the chance to have their say after all at the wind farm inquiry - without having to take time off.
10. TV star adds weight to moor war
Rochdale Observer, Tuesday 12 October 2004TV botanist and wildlife campaigner Professor David Bellamy was guest of honour at a fund-raising dinner held by the Friends of Scout and Knowl Moor.