Controversy Surrounds Proposed Windfarm Near Yorkshire Dales

‘It makes no sense’: the battle over plans for a windfarm by the Yorkshire Dales

The fight for Hope Moor is set to be repeated across the UK as the government aims to hit its renewable energy targets Instead of a slingshot, the Davids are brandishing a sculpture and a coffee table book. Their Goliaths are a Norwegian energy company and a UK energy secretary with renewable targets to meet. A fierce battle has begun over one of England’s tallest windfarms, proposed for deep peat moorland overlooking the Yorkshire Dales national park, in what residents say will mark the irrevocable industrialisation of their rural landscape. Continue reading...

By Patrick Barkham