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	<title>Shropshire StarWind Turbines news &#187; Shropshire Star</title>
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		<title>Move to install wind turbine at Sweeney Mountain</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/26/move-to-install-wind-turbine-at-sweeney-mountain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An 89ft tall wind turbine could be installed at the foot of the picturesque Sweeney Mountain in Shropshire.]]></description>
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		<title>More trouble with wind turbines</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/20/more-trouble-with-wind-turbines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/20/more-trouble-with-wind-turbines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An 82ft high wind turbine which was controversially given planning permission near Shrewsbury last year came crashing to the ground in high winds.]]></description>
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		<title>Leader: For wind turbines, ticking the boxes is not good enough</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/13/leader-for-wind-turbines-ticking-the-boxes-is-not-good-enough/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/13/leader-for-wind-turbines-ticking-the-boxes-is-not-good-enough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[national grid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It will be deeply ironic if the damage to a wind turbine which has temporarily closed a windfarm in Mid Wales was caused by high winds.]]></description>
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		<title>Engineers investigate after wind turbine ripped apart</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/13/engineers-investigate-after-wind-turbine-ripped-apart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/13/engineers-investigate-after-wind-turbine-ripped-apart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A windfarm in Mid Wales has been temporarily closed while engineers investigate damage to one of its wind turbines.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind turbine talks will be broadcast live on web</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/06/wind-turbine-talks-will-be-broadcast-live-on-web/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/06/wind-turbine-talks-will-be-broadcast-live-on-web/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[mid wales]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[powys county council]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A major debate about plans to build hundreds of wind turbines and a massive substation in Mid Wales is to be broadcast live on the internet, it was revealed today.]]></description>
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		<title>Campaigners raise fears on pylon plan</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/12/14/campaigners-raise-fears-on-pylon-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/12/14/campaigners-raise-fears-on-pylon-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wind turbines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Roads across Shropshire and Mid Wales could be inundated with lorries carrying huge loads, if proposals to build hundreds of wind turbines go ahead, a document by campaigners against the plans has claimed.]]></description>
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		<title>Welshpool pledge to keep fighting windfarms</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/11/24/welshpool-pledge-to-keep-fighting-windfarms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/11/24/welshpool-pledge-to-keep-fighting-windfarms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[mid wales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[welshpool]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Civic leaders in Welshpool have vowed to continue objecting to all  windfarm applications which pass through the chamber because of  issues  over transporting turbine sections.]]></description>
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		<title>Turbines will ruin region&#8217;s countryside, claims boss</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/11/19/turbines-will-ruin-regions-countryside-claims-boss/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/11/19/turbines-will-ruin-regions-countryside-claims-boss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 11:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abermule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mid wales]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Huge swathes of countryside across Shropshire and Mid Wales could be ruined by wind turbines and pylons, the head of the National Trust warned today.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Wind turbines planned in Shropshire</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/11/14/wind-turbines-planned-in-shropshire/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/11/14/wind-turbines-planned-in-shropshire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ellesmere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[market drayton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A giant 150ft wind turbine could be built near Market Drayton to power a farm, it emerged today.]]></description>
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		<title>Letter: Shropshire, windfarms and hypocrisy</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/10/11/letter-shropshire-windfarms-and-hypocrisy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/10/11/letter-shropshire-windfarms-and-hypocrisy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 04:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Owen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[talking point]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Letter: We must be soft in the head in Wales. While North Powys had 103 wind turbines about 150 feet in height at Llandinam in the mid-90s, Shropshire, just across Offa’s Dyke did not have a single wind turbine.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>35</slash:comments>
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		<title>Developer wins fight to install wind mast</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/08/22/developer-wins-fight-to-install-wind-mast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/08/22/developer-wins-fight-to-install-wind-mast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[weston park]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Developers have won their battle to install a 230ft wind mast at the site of a controversial windfarm on the Shropshire-Staffordshire border.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>36</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter: In defence of wind turbines</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/08/16/letter-in-defence-of-wind-turbines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/08/16/letter-in-defence-of-wind-turbines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bridgnorth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not surprising that the three issues which most concern people about wind turbines have surfaced in your letter column. I would like to respond to each in turn.]]></description>
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		<title>Outcry over plan for two 240ft turbines near Bridgnorth</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/08/10/outcry-over-plan-for-two-240ft-turbines-near-bridgnorth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/08/10/outcry-over-plan-for-two-240ft-turbines-near-bridgnorth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly 100 people turned out at a meeting last night to protest against plans to put up towering wind turbines near Bridgnorth.]]></description>
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		<title>MP claims Grid plans would hit communities</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/06/04/mp-claims-grid-plans-would-hit-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/06/04/mp-claims-grid-plans-would-hit-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Nash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plans which could see hundreds of pylons built across miles of Shropshire and Mid Wales countryside could invade the landscape and devastate communities, an MP has warned.]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-pylon crowds will march on Welsh Assembly</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/05/13/anti-pylon-crowds-will-march-on-welsh-assembly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/05/13/anti-pylon-crowds-will-march-on-welsh-assembly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 10:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of campaigners fighting multi-million pound plans which may   see hundreds of pylons and a substation built in Mid Wales will march on  the Welsh Assembly on May 24.]]></description>
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		<title>Concerns over bids for more wind turbines</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/latest/2009/11/13/concerns-over-bids-for-more-wind-turbines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/latest/2009/11/13/concerns-over-bids-for-more-wind-turbines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Leggett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Campaigners fear more than 1,000 wind turbines could be built across Powys as more planning applications are set to flood in.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Turbines response criticised</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/latest/2009/08/19/turbines-response-criticised/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/latest/2009/08/19/turbines-response-criticised/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Owen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Civic leaders in Welshpool have hit out at county councillors over their lack of response on windfarm transportation issues.]]></description>
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		<title>Letter: Carbon plan is pure fiction</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/latest/2009/08/18/letter-carbon-plan-is-pure-fiction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/latest/2009/08/18/letter-carbon-plan-is-pure-fiction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Owen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Letter: Ever since cinema was invented there have been science fiction “catastrophe” movies of varying quality and credibility. Imagine climate change as a sci-fi scenario.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>36</slash:comments>
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		<title>Health hazard fear over wind turbines</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/latest/2009/08/08/health-hazard-fear-over-wind-turbines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/latest/2009/08/08/health-hazard-fear-over-wind-turbines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People living close to windfarms in Powys could face a health risk as campaigners claim turbines are being built too close to people's homes.]]></description>
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		<title>Sheep may be used in windfarm protest</title>
		<link>http://www.shropshirestar.com/latest/2009/07/18/sheep-may-be-used-in-windfarm-protest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shropshirestar.com/latest/2009/07/18/sheep-may-be-used-in-windfarm-protest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six sheep with small wind turbines attached to them may travel to London in a bid to prevent thousands of wind turbine lorries travelling through a Mid Wales town.]]></description>
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