If every windfarm company pledged 10% of its income to the local community, many more would be approved
Listening to the radio yesterday, I remembered something I’ve been meaning to get off my chest. The PM programme carried a report from Westray in the Orkney islands, where a 900kW wind turbine was approved without a single planning objection (BBC News of Ten has more). Given that it stands 67m high on a mostly flat island, how did this happen?
It’s simple: the turbine is owned by the residents. They raised £1.5m in loans and grants. Once the bank [
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This is an example of the weather phenomenon called “hard rime”. The cafe at the summit of Snowdon covered in 4-8 inches of feathered ice.
Rime is a type of white-coloured ice that forms when water droplets from fog or low-lying clouds freeze during temperatures between -7 and -2C.
As cold as it looked. The ice was at least 100 – 200mm thick over the entire building.
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