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BBC NEWS | Programmes | Politics Show | Reap the wild wind

 
Nick Watson Producer Politics Show West Midlands

Could the region become like Royd Moor wind farm before long?

 
 

When the wind blows, the West Midlands generates precisely no electricity for the national grid because there is not a single wind farm in the [...]

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Visit Wales Now

   
Visit Wales and see the spectacular landscape

But is this really what you will see when you visit Wales?
There are some dramatic changes in the Welsh landscape. To find out what is happening, click on the headings below.
 
There will be a welcome in the hillsides
Great Views and So Much Open Space:
What there [...]

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Watch the construction of 2 different 126m Industrial Wind Turbine Power Plants.

“Gulliver” at the time, the UK’s Largest Industrial Wind Turbine Power Plant at 126m, the same size as each of the 10 proposed for the Lenchwick Industrial Wind Power Plant (aka Lenchwick Windfarm)
This monster was completed in January 2006

The second video is of a slightly smaller turbine, in this case Spearville Industrial Wind Turbine [...]

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Putting things in scale (Part 3)

One of the massive turbines of the Black Law windfarm in South Lanarkshire, Scotland
  This is a duplicate of a Digital Negative taken on a Nikon D2X camera, with a Sigma 50-500mm f/4-6.3EX DG HSM lens, of one of the 42 massive turbines at Blacklaw Wind Farm, which rise to a height of 110 metres [...]

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A letter from our local MP Peter Luff

Peter Luff your local MP has given us full permission to include this letter, in fact he has positively encouraged us to do so.  Here is his letter in full:
 
Thank you for your email concerning the proposal from Scottish Power for major wind turbine development in the Lenchwick/Lenches area.
First, I must clarify that I received [...]

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