wind power

In response to the announcement of planning consent for Whitelee, at 332 mega-watts the Europe's biggest ever onshore wind farm, Greenpeace campaigner Charlie Kronick said:

In response to today's announcement by the government that they have rejected plans to build what would have been England's largest windfarm at Whinash in Cumbria, Stephen Tindale, Executive Director of Greenpeace, said:

"Any Government that wants to expand airports and turn down windfarms is simply not fit to govern. It's hard to believe that the nuclear industry has not played some role in this.

Hong Kong, 17 October 2005 - China is in a prime position to become the world leader in wind power, according to a Greenpeace report released today.

Wind Guandong, a study of wind power potential in the heavily industrialised Guandong province in southern China, finds that the region could by 2020 alone, produce as much energy from wind power as Hong Kong's total current electricity supply.

11 billion tonnes of CO2 can be saved by 2020

5 May 2005 - Commenting on the Countryside Agency's decision to draft new boundaries extending the Lake District National Park to include Whinash in Cumbria, the site of a proposed windfarm, Greenpeace campaigner Simon Clydesdale said:

"The timing of this recommendation seems too much of a coincidence in the light of the ongoing windfarm inquiry. There is an ignoble tradition of manipulating the boundaries of national parks to exclude areas of interest to the quarrying industry. Now the Countryside Agency is reversing the trick and wanting to extend boundaries to forestall an important initiative to tackle climate change."

Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth have joined forces to pledge their support for a proposed wind farm at Whinash in the Lake District. A planning inquiry into the scheme is due to begin on Tuesday (19th April) at Penrith in Cumbria.

Greenpeace will this week submit a statement to the public inquiry into the Romney Marsh wind farm. The environmental campaign group is supporting the construction of the proposed project by nPower Renewables.

Wind power is essential in shifting power generation to methods that don't emit carbon dioxide, the most important greenhouse gas. The statement quotes the UK government's chief scientist, who has stated that global warming is "the most severe problem we are facing today - more serious even than the threat of terrorism".