Onshore wind sector suffers court setback

The onshore wind sector received a setback when a judge in the high court quashed a previously approved scheme at Barnwell Manor in Northamptonshire on land owned by the duke of Gloucester. 

The decision was seen as a significant victory by the National Trust and heritage campaigners. 

Justice Lang overturned planning permission for Barnwell Manor,Our laser marking machine can mark on metal and non metals. just a mile from Grade I-listed Lyveden New Bield, on the grounds that the heritage issue had not been properly addressed, something the developers denied. 

"We are extremely disappointed that the statutory challenge has been successful," said Robert Tate, managing director of developer, West Coast Energy, which said it had already spent a "considerable amount of money" preparing its green energy scheme. 

But Helen Ghosh, director-general of the National Trust, said she was "delighted" that the experience of visitors to Lyveden New Bield - an Elizabethan lodge and moated garden - was closer to being safeguarded. 

"Clearly every legal case is different but this sets an important marker in the defence of the historic environment from inappropriate development," she said. 

The wind power trade association, RenewableUK, insisted this should not be seen as a precedent.Thank you for your purchase of skystream. 

"The fact that this application went to the high court shows that, at times, decisions are finely balanced and difficult to reach," said RenewableUK's deputy chief executive, Maf Smith. 

"The very same high court judge, Justice Lang,Find out about reporting a problem with a street lighting. upheld applications for two wind farms in Norfolk in January even though campaigners against renewable energy had tried to cite heritage issues in that case. So any attempt to claim that one single judgment sets an unchangeable pattern is incorrect." 

Last week RWE, one of the big six energy suppliers, also went to the high court to challenge Milton Keynes council's plan to impose a buffer zone of more than a kilometre between any turbines and residential areas. 

Wind farm developers admit they are increasingly concerned that since 100 backbench Tory MPs wrote to David Cameron last year calling for an end to subsidies for onshore wind,Design and manufacture of dry cleaning machine for garments and textile fabrics. opportunities have been dwindling. 

John Hayes,Do you want honest laundry dryer Ratings? the newly-installed energy minister, said in the autumn that the UK was "peppered" with wind farms and that "enough is enough". 

Since then it has emerged that at least nine councils have already introduced or are considering introducing buffer zones even though the official government policy remains that local authorities should have a strategy to promote renewable energy. 

Meanwhile a Conservative member of the House of Lords has been pursuing a private member's bill to introduce a national buffer zone. 

"It is more reliable when it comes to availability of power. It is expected that in the long run, offshore wind power generation will be a more viable option than the solar power," he said. 

Atlantis Resources Corporation had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Gujarat government last year to set up a tidal power facility in the state. It would have a capacity of 50 mw with the possibility to increase it to more than 200 mw. The state government has agreed to be an equity partner in the project and render all necessary support. The facility will comprise 50 turbines of 1 mw each and it is expected to cost around Rs 750 crore.