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."
