A serious blowPlans for England's first truly community-owned wind farm

climate change

are under threat as commercial developers muscle in on renewables Terry SlavinWednesday April 25, 2007The Guardian
It may be a pristine spring day, but when Adam Twine looks out across his field of dreams in Oxfordshire, he sees dark clouds massing on the horizon. The 46-year-old organic farmer, who raised £4.4m from 2,000 investors last year to build England's first truly community-owned wind farm, fears that the project could be scrapped - and with it, the nascent community wind farm movement.
The threat is not from Paddy McNally, the multimillionaire entrepreneur who has a £7m estate - previously owned by James Bond creator Ian Fleming - across the road from Twine's farm near the Wiltshire border. McNally took Vale of White Horse district council to the high court in an unsuccessful bid to overturn planning permission for the wind farm.