Naturalist cheered by windfarm news
Friday 17th July 2009, 12:54PM BST.
Naturalist David Bellamy has praised Shropshire residents for “fighting the good fight” in their people power victory over developers who wanted to build a windfarm near their homes.
His comments come as campaigners against the windfarm at Lower Farm, Bearstone, near Market Drayton, have spoken of their relief after a planning inspector threw out an appeal on Wednesday.
Mr Bellamy, who joined members of anti-windfarm campaign group Vortex for a walk around the site to raise the profile of their campaign earlier this year, said today: “Congratulations to all the team that made it happen and remember that there are tens of thousands of people across the world that will be heartened by this decision.
“Wind turbines are not the answer to the problems of our country’s sustainable energy supplies or to combat man-made global warming.
“Vortex should carry on fighting the good fight and be ready to stand up against an appeal.”
He added that he would lend his support to Vortex again in the event of applicant Nuon Renewables launching a bid for a judicial review.
For many Vortex members, the three-year battle has been draining and costly with members raising more than £80,000 to pay the group’s legal fees.
Terry May, a Vortex campaigner, said: “We are on cloud nine and so relieved by this news.”
Nuon had applied for planning permission to build seven turbines.
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Was it an advantage or a disadvantage for VORTEX to have the support of a man, who is now notorious for calling anthropogenic climate change ‘poppycock’.
To see the dodgy sources, upon which Dr Bellamy based this claim, watch this video clip from Channel 4 News, on 10 May 2005, where he debated glacier melt and climate change with the environmentalist journalist George Monbiot.
Just key in ‘Monbiot Bellamy Are the glaciers melting?’ into Google.
At the end of the debate, which was a total defeat for Bellamy who was unable to answer convincingly a point that his statements were almost tantamount to ‘scientific fraud’, Jon Snow invited Dr Bellamy and Monbiot back to continue the discussion at some later date.
Monbiot said Yes. Bellamy said No.
Dr Bellamy has consistently refused to be interviewed by Monbiot.
See this article for point-by-point rebuttals of climate change arguments that Bellamy has made in March 2009.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/mar/16/monbiot-bellamy-climate-change-denier
It’s devastating stuff -not something that a campaign group supported by Dr Bellamy would trumpet.
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The difference Huw is that George Mobiot is a journalist and David Bellamy is a scientist.
Monbiot comes over as such a single issue fanatic that it is no wonder serious people do not wish to waste their time being interviewed by him.
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