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1. Firm insists: ‘We won’t give up’
Rochdale Observer, Friday 5 December 2003UNITED Utilities has vowed to continue its fight for a Scout Moor windfarm despite strong opposition from all four of Rochdale Council's township planning committees.
2. Windfarm protestors set to fight land-swap plan
Rochdale Observer, Tuesday 6 April 2004A LAND swap - if it's approved by the government - is on the cards as part of United Utilities' plans for a 26-turbine wind farm on Scout and Knowl Moor.
3. Another rejection ... but battle rages on
Rochdale Observer, Tuesday 23 December 2003NOW the really hard work begins ...
4. Wind blowing our way reckon turbine battlers
Rochdale Observer, Friday 5 March 2004ANTI-windfarm campaigners got a boost this week with news that a planned 12-turbine farm on moors near Burnley will not go ahead.
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. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Windfarm inquiry will be on home ground
Rochdale Observer, Tuesday 10 August 2004FEARS that the planning inquiry into the Scout and Knowl Moor windfarm scheme would be held out of town were alleviated at a pre-inquiry meeting on Monday.
10. 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.