Large wind turbine at Emnie Lane

[germinal]

Apparently it is proposed to build a large wind turbine at Emnie Lane. This is going to be four times bigger than the Angel of the North. It sounds horrendous!

[rocketmanjohn]

Along with global warming, another joke. An inefficient eyesore that wouldn't be feasible without tax payers subsidies. When will we ever learn.
John

[noel]

Politicians will never learn. Lip service is what it is!!

[Martin]

Is this the one?

leylandguardian.co.uk

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Early proposal documents state: “United Utilities is considering the installation of a single wind turbine on land at its Wastewater Treatment Works.

“An initial feasibility study has identified the Leyland site as having the potential to accommodate a single wind turbine with a tip height of up to 79 metres that would generate electricity to be used on site, with any excess exported to the local grid network.”

It adds the turbine would be operational for a period of 25 years, and that noise, shadow flicker and visual amenity are not considered to be significant problems.

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[germinal]

Are not considered to be significant problems!!!!!!!!!!!
I bet whoever wrote that doesn't live anywhere near.

[Peter Harris]

These Greenie idiots and politicians have lost the plot, as John pointed out, it's just a political con and of no practical significance. Base load generation has to come from traditional methods and these half baked ideas can actually compromise efficent generation when politicians legislate that electricity companies have to take power generated by these means into the grid.

Maybe the turbine coud be located facing upwards in the roof of the South Ribble Council building to catch all the hot air rising and the power used on the shredding machines at election time.

[germinal]

Good suggestion!

[noel]

And we're expected to vote for these idiots.

[APFaz]

I remember when the waste plant got built and the complainers where branded NIMBY.

LCC ended up paying compo and the same problems we have had and more importantly warned about before it was built are happening in other places.

The muppets (politicians) didn't give a damn then and don't give a damn now and there will no doubt be a backhander to see it go through.

Welcome to 21st century progress.

[BRUCE BENJAMIN]

Good morning, does anyone know the actual 'cost' of these turbines, the one at the end of Dunkirk lane, cost the owner £55,000,and the Socialist blaire/brown cabal, pay him £0.43 per kwh, while charging him £0.13 kwh to boil his kettle, as the comments on this blog ARE effectively negative, their derision is well founded, to obtain some background to this grotesque 'confidence-trick', perpetrated on our more guillable politicians or those with a different agenda than our British welfare. should google ABANDONED WIND TURBINES USA, (made in America, by american workers) and see the results of these policies wrought large across North America,and of course, the rest of the world, What is NEVER mentioned by the 'tree-huggers', is the actual year on year cost of maintaining the complex and heavy machinery that is up in the 'turbine house' behind the blades.The 'front-end' bearings for example,fail first, because of the extrordinary loads applied at that point, ALL the publicity about these turbines focused on how much energy would be saved, and the number of jobs created, well the skilled jobs, have been created in Europe, NOT Britain

The sense that these splendid machines, like the 'carbon-tax' are more for political expediency than actual benefit to the environment

PS I cannot, because of my 'computer-illitercy' find a point on this blog-site to open a 'new-topic', HELP please