Copyright 2004 Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News

January 8, 2004

SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 4

LENGTH: 160 words

HEADLINE: Bellamy blasts wind-farm 'liars'

BODY:


TV botanist David Bellamy has accused people who claim wind farms have great
benefits for the countryside of "lying through their teeth". He told more
than 200 protesters fighting a plan to put seven turbines on Denshaw Moor,
near Oldham, they would save more energy by insulating their homes. And he
challenged United Utilities, the firm behind the Denshaw plan, to prove that
the planned farm would benefit the environment. He said: "We have to stop
this from going on. These things kill birds and ruin sustainable
livelihoods. "They would create a fiddling amount of energy. Every hundred
houses lagged would save the same energy as one turbine. Not one power
station would be lost if these things were built.

"They are not things to farm the wind, they are things to milk the
taxpayer." United Utilities says the turbines would provide clean energy for
thousands of homes, while cutting carbon dioxide emissions from power
stations.

GRAPHIC: ANGRY . . . David Bellamy

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