Action group hopes to stop spread of wind farms
CAMPAIGNERS opposed to plans to build a wind farm near their homes are staging an exhibition and fundraising event on Saturday.
The event is being held from 2pm to 5pm at Billingborough Village Hall and organised by action group BHATS (Billingborough and Horbling Against TurbineS).
The group is hoping to send up a blimp into the skies above Billingborough, Horbling, Pointon and Sempringham to illustrate the height of the proposed wind turbines.
Chairman of BHATS, Sarah Ormrod, said: "Ours is a relatively new action group very much opposed to the proliferation of wind farms immediately adjacent to communities in Lincolnshire.
"Another application is expected in the spring for a massive 17 x 3MW giant turbine wind farm right next door to the historic spring-line villages of Billingborough and Horbling and very close to Sempringham, Pointon and Swaton,
"When villagers met to discuss this proposal, the group present were 100 per cent against the wind farm and 80 per cent of the returns from a parish council poll of households also voted to oppose the application.
"Our action group is closely allied with other local opposition groups and most particularly our older sibling AGAST (Action Group Against Sempringham Turbines), currently fighting plans for six giant turbines from Scottish power only a couple of kilometres away.
"We hope that the name BHATs will remind people of the threat to wildlife and environment and the disruption to signals and communications caused by these developments."
Mrs Ormrod added: "People are only just coming to realise the irreparable damage a wind farm of this vast size - and close to others at Bicker and planned at Heckington, Sempringham, Dunsby and elsewhere - will have on local business, livelihood, quality of life, transport, health and well being, when sited too close to people's homes.
"Our particular part of the fenland has remained unspoiled for centuries and, if we don't do something to protest now, these communities will be lost forever.
"Thousands of tons of concrete poured into the landscape will do lasting and untold damage and cost far more in CO2 emissions than these government-subsidised monsters will ever offset in their working life.'
For more information on BHATs contact them via a page hosted on the AGAST website www.agast.co.uk or via a contact email address at SupportBHATs@googlemail.com
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