January 2009 
The beautiful southern fringes of the Exmoor National Park are under threat! Four developers are trying to build a total of
24 giant industrial wind turbines at the following sites which lie between Bishops Nympton, Rackenford, Molland & Oakford: 

Batsworthy Cross where npower are trying to build up to 9 x 103m 2.5 MW wind turbines 

Luckett Moor, site name Cross Moor where Devon Light & Power are trying to build 2 x 100m 2.5MW wind turbines

Paul's, Wester Bullaford and West Moors, site name Three Moors where Airtricity are trying to build 9 x 105m 2MW wind turbines 

Bickham Moor where Coronation Power are trying to build 4 x 110m 3MW wind turbines

May 2009

The Bickham Moor and Three Moors Public Enquiry starts on Tuesday 9th June at South Molton Assembly Rooms

The conjoined Public Enquiry for the Bickham Moor and Three Moors wind turbine planning applications will be held at South Molton Assembly Rooms (above the Pannier Market). It starts on Tuesday 9th June at 10am and runs for 4 weeks, Tues-Fri, 10am to 5pm

Please come along to show your opposition to these planning applications. You can come and go as you please and you don’t have to stay all day so as you pop into South Molton for your shopping, do please quietly come in.

For details on how to speak at this public enquiry, please email contact@twomoorscampaign.co.uk

Funding
Thank you to the many people who have so generously contributed to the funding of the expert witnesses we have employed for this public enquiry. If you have not yet made a contribution and would like to do so, please make your cheques payable to the “Two Moors Campaign” and post them to “PO Box 132, Tiverton, Devon EX16 OAP.”

Tickets are now on sale for our next great fund raising event:

PIMMS ON THE LAWN
at
Rackenford Manor
Sunday 31st May 2-5pm
with the
Four Seasons String Quartet
Raffle, plant tombola, walled garden tour, licensed bar and
Auction
of donated paintings, antiques, other items & pledges
Tickets £10 (children under 12 free) and include afternoon tea

Please call Jane on 01884 881559 to purchase tickets or to lodge your donations for the auction

You can object again (or object for the first time) by clicking on the button below.

Please watch this site for news or email contact@twomoorscampaign.co.uk so that we can keep you personally informed
 

Please go to the Wind-Watch website for daily news by clicking on this link: http://www.wind-watch.org/news/category/locations/europe/uk/

Noise report is scathing about Batsworthy Cross. Click the icon to read

Why is this happening? 

On top of the normal price for electricity, wind developers get around £230,000 per year per 2MW turbine. We pay for this on top of ournormal bill through an additional charge to our electricity bill. This "incentivisation" or subsidy is called the ROCs, Renewable ObligationsCertificates scheme.

 
What would we get in return for all four sites?

A reduction of less than 3 millionths of one percent of world CO2 emissions; a figure too insignificant to make a difference and a figure that OFGEM, the National Audit Office and the Carbon Trust say could be at least 10 times greater for the same money. 

Zero displacement of our conventional power stations unless you don't mind the lights going out while you're on the operating table.

Damage to the environment, ecology & economy; noise above the World Health Organisations' recommendations; and Vibro-Acoustic Disease. 

What can you do?

The Exmoor National Park borrows much of its landscape characteristics from it's southern fringes, making this area, which is rich in wildlife and steeped in history, an integral aspect of the Park. This precious piece of our heritage and the tourist's delight, deserves protection from industrial development and most especially from development that is so totally meaningless and nothing more than a feeble political gesture. Object using the button above.

Billions of pounds of your money should be spent to best effect on securing your electricity supply and reducing CO2 emissions; it is not being!