Single turbines

First there were 22 turbines at Fullabrook, now there will be two more close by, which makes 24 in the area.

http://www.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk/Wind-turbines-ahead-despite-widespread-protest/story-13545925-detail/story.html


http://www.cpredevon.org.uk/details/mullacott-cross-inductrial-estate-54m.html


http://www.cpredevon.org.uk/details/79.6m-single-wind-turbine.html

Between Instow and Yelland

This photograph (using the zoom on my camera) was taken this morning from the Tarka Trail in the Taw Estuary, between Instow and Yelland, looking across at the first five turbines on the hills opposite. Because they are so big, they confuse your sense of scale. They are in fact several miles behind the white houses on the first ridge.

In Wales and Scotland, of course, people are fighting against proposals for hundreds of turbines, not just 22. They are much larger as well - the Nant y Moch and Druim-ba turbines would be about 500 ft high.

Today in Barnstaple, Devon

Today in Barnstaple, by the new Taw Bridge. Yet another convoy of turbine blades....
Incidentally, for anyone living in North Devon who hasn't seen them yet, the first few turbines are already visible from the road between Instow and Yelland, on the south side of the Taw Estuary (the white cottage in the photograph heading this blog is on the northern side of the Estuary, opposite Yelland)
To see more of the effects the Fullabrook Down Wind farm is having on once secluded Devon hills, go to this link on the artistsagainstwindfarms.com website

Coming to a hill near you...?

Another short clip showing what happens when they build a wind farm. They have to lay down roads, to bear the weight of the heavy construction vehicles. On either side of Burland Lane, the ancient drovers track between Ilfracombe and Braunton, roads have been constructed. This was filmed at a point where they had made an opening through both sides of the lane, so that they could drive across it.
If you live in the countryside, the chances are that this could be happening in the future to your hill, or your moor, or your valley, too, wherever you are.
More photos and videos to come, look for them on YouTube.

Up on Fullabrook Down last Sunday

I went up on to the Fullabrook Down Wind farm site on Sunday. it wasn't a great day for taking photographs, cloudy with poor visibility much of the time, but I took some video clips as well, which will be uploaded later.
This photograph was taken between the positions of turbine s 6 and 10 on this map:
http://www.artistsagainstwindfarms.com/walks/queens-exhibition/fullabrook-folder/fullabrook-image-map.html

If you click on the button between turbines 9 and 12 you can see a painting I did of a sheep and her lambs, on the hill as it was before the diggers moved in. (Apologies for the fact that one or two of the links no longer work, it needs updating)
Christine Lovelock