Baumber windfarm action group
FIGHTING TO PROTECT
THE WOLDS
& THE VALE OF LINCOLN
- a mixed message!
the tennyson trail
As Lincolnshire County Council and East Lindsey District Council proudly launches the new heritage trail celebrating 200 years of Tennyson by guiding visitors through the beauty of the county’s rural countryside, wind energy companies are applying for planning permission in evermore sensitive parts of the county. Proliferation of industrial scale windfarms continues in marginal, historically sensitive and increasingly inappropriate areas all along the trail.
the baumber windfarm proposal (represented here) if permitted would destroy the best open and uninterrupted landscape views of lincoln vale & cathedral on the trail
download a special tennyson's turbine trail leaflet here
At BWAG we believe that local micro wind
generation could be one way to answer this issue.
With much smaller turbines linked to homes or small village grids local people could directly benefit from additional energy without the huge and dramatic impact on our increasingly rare countryside brought by industrial wind farms. Areas bordering Baumber such as the Lincolnshire Wolds and its protected AONB would not be so negatively impacted by such developments and critically would be more likley to gain local cooperation and support.
ED Miliband (MP), Climate Change Secretary talking about industrial scale windfarms said:
"opposing windfarms should be socially taboo, The government needs to be saying, 'It is socially unacceptable to be against wind turbines in your area"
Cllr Stephen Williams, Lincolnshire County council said:
"Lincolnshire’s big open skies, wide see-for-miles landscapes and seascapes are now being irretrievably lost for future generations due to the over intensification of wind farm developments in the county"
Tennyson's Trail will soon lose its value to tourists and locals alike as almost every location on the trail already is, or could soon become,
badly degraded by more and more inappropriately sited windfarms.
The proposal at Baumber would open the door to the industrialisation
of Lincolnshire's heartlands and impact on thousands.
click on the Turbine Trail Map to get the bigger picture
St. James' church spire in louth with some of the 20 turbines at conisholme. the aspect of the wolds aonb is already damaged.
Lincolnshire has more wind turbines than anywhere else in the East Midlands, even though it consumes the least amount of electricity. The county continues to bear the burden for reaching the renewable energy targets for the region. It also has the highest targets compared with areas including Leicestershire and Derbyshire. Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Derbyshire are currently not producing a single kW of onshore wind energy, even though they have targets lower than those given to Lincolnshire.
Feargus Mack, Head of marketing at lincolnshire tourism said:
"the lincolnshire wolds were to tennyson what the lake district was to wordsworth. the wolds inspired tennyson's most famous poems and this festival (200th anniversary) is the perfect opportunity to explore the natural beauty of the landscape"
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