What's Happening?

News update: 30th April 2011.

Energie Kontor have re-submitted a planning aplication for 3 x 100 metre tall wind turbines at Brightenber Hill , Gargarve, BD23 3PA,  to the Craven District planning department.

HOW TO OBJECT TO EK's PLANNING APPLICATION

If you want to object, now’s the time. The deadline is 14 May.

We’ve attached a guide on how to make a complaint, which you can read by clicking on the Publicity & Information link to the left of this screen.

Please send your objection to:

Roger France, Principal Planning Officer

Craven District Council

Development Control Services

1 Belle Vue Square

Broughton Road

Skipton

BD23 1FJ

It’s important to use you own words. Form letters carry little weight.

More local news: Knabs Ridge Harrogate:

In Harrogate, the eight turbines at Knabbs Ridge may soon become 36 turbines. Don’t let it happen here. We’ll get just one crack at this, so please take a few minutes to send in your objection

They’re back! (Apologies to the writers of the film "Poltergeist").

Despite earlier promises, EK has come back with a new proposal for three turbines. Same place; same size; same blighting of neighbours’ lives; same scar on the landscape.

EnergieKontor’s first contact with the community was a brochure explaining the proposed wind farm’s benefits. Unfortunately, it contained so many errors, we've lodged a four point complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority.

EK held their one and only public demonstration at Coniston Cold Village Hall on 14 December 2011. The company made some startling admissions. Rather than use data from their anemometer:

•   they took their wind speed data from the internet; and
•   to estimate Brightenber's power output, they used the UK's average turbine efficiency for 2009.  

Hmmm, what's so bad about the anemometer data they can't share it or use it in their calculations? We asked EK that very question but so far, they refuse to answer.  The good news is, they've promised another exhibition before submitting their planning application, perhaps in late March. We hope they'll be more forthcoming next time round.