People come to Cumbria for its wild and unspoilt landscape. Cumbria’s competitive advantage remains its rural beauty, and we must recognise that it is the protection of our landscape that will protect our economy. The construction of wind turbines in inappropriate locations will have a deep and long-term negative impact on our local economy, marring the landscape tourists come to see, and jeopardising the billion pounds the tourism industry annually brings to the area.
I am also deeply sympathetic to community concerns – this is their landscape, their community, and they should be able to determine, except in the most extreme circumstances, the future and nature of their locality. My hope, therefore, is that we can as Cumbrians continue to harness the strength of our opposition and highlight the importance of our landscape to our economy and our lives, and stop inappropriate developments.
Rory Stewart MP has today praised and thanked the hundreds of community activists in Penrith and The Border who have supported his long-standing campaign to remove all subsidies on new onshore wind turbines, and to continue to keep his constituency – and north Cumbria – a turbine-free zone. Since election in 2010, Rory has helped […]
Rory Stewart MP held a meeting with the Prime-Minister through the House of Commons Liaison Committee last Tuesday, in which the Prime-Minister confirmed a promise to remove all subsidies to new onshore wind turbines after the general election. The Prime-Minister said that now that ten per cent of the UK’s energy needs were provided by […]
Local MP and anti-wind turbine activist Rory Stewart on Saturday joined locals and representatives of a number of North Cumbrian anti-wind turbine groups at a public meeting in Armathwaite, to reinforce his support in fighting commercial wind turbine developments in the Eden Valley and along the A6/M6 corridor and to propose that minimum distance legislation be adopted […]
As part of his ongoing campaign to ensure that north Cumbria remains free of inappropriate wind-turbines, Rory has written to Cumbrian District Councils, pressing them to adopt the essential features of the Wind Turbines (Minimum Distance from Residential Premises) Bill which was formerly being carried through the House of Lords by sponsor Lord Reay, until his unexpected death […]
Rory Stewart MP, as part of his ongoing campaign to ensure that north Cumbria remains free of inappropriate wind-turbines, is pressing Cumbrian District Councils to adopt the essential features of the Wind Turbines (Minimum Distance from Residential Premises) Bill which was formerly being carried through the House of Lords by sponsor Lord Reay until his […]
Local MP Rory Stewart met with Ainstable community representatives on Friday to see for himself the significant detrimental impact that a proposed wind turbine, application 14/0281, would have on the local landscape. The Ainstable Wind Turbine Action Campaign has the support of over 100 members, and the Penrith and the Border MP promised to offer any further […]
Cumbrian MP Rory Stewart welcomed Secretary of State, Eric Pickles’ decision yesterday to accept his request to “call-in” the Killington wind-turbine application. This is the second success in a week for Rory’s campaign against wind-turbines in Penrith and Border, following the rejection, last week, of a turbine application at Orton. The Killington application would see […]
Penrith and the Border MP Rory Stewart and local Eden District Councillor Adrian Todd on Saturday gathered one hundred local protesters at the proposed site of a 70-metre wind turbine at Raisgill Hall – Eden District Council application 13/0917 – which, if built, would be visible for miles around, damaging pristine views of Orton Fell, the Howgills, […]
Rory on Saturday supported over two hundred local protestors at the proposed Carwath Wind Farm site, scene of application 2/2013/0227 to Allerdale Borough Council for the construction of three turbines of 115 metres in height, which if built could be viewed from the National Park, and across the whole Solway Plain. The local community […]
We were nervous about the rally against wind turbines last Saturday. We worried that no-one would turn up, or that a crowd of hostile ‘antis’ would be bussed in to shout us down. But by eleven thirty, fifty yards north of the Scottish border, there were over two hundred people, well-wrapped against the cold. Two […]