EnergieKontor to Appeal?

In November last year, the Planning Committee refused EnergieKontor’s application to build five, 100 metre wind turbines in the Gargrave Drumlin Field. Since then, there have been rumblings of an appeal but when quizzed by the Craven Herald, the company remained non-committal. We have heard nothing concrete but we hope EK’s management will honour their promise not to continue with the development if local people do not want it.

They made the promise during community briefings and they repeated it to our Member of Parliament. We’re happy to give the company the benefit of the doubt but, just in case they break their word, we have been busy. We will fight any appeal with as much vigour as we gave the planning application. So far, we have prepared much of the paperwork needed to fight an appeal and we have made initial contact with an eminent member of the legal profession.

We expect the fight to be tough and it won’t be cheap but if EnergieKontor loses, which we are sure they will, we will reclaim all our costs. When you add our costs to the District Council’s, then EK could end up with a whacking bill and have nothing to show for it.

Platform Against Wind Farms (EPAW)

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For more information, and to see a copy of the letter that EPAW will send to all European Commissioners and MEPs, check out www.epaw.org

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