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Fight to halt wind farms.
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Lakeland Echo (Morecambe, England)
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July 8, 2008
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PEOPLE in the Lune Valley are being urged to fight plans for a windfarm just one and a half miles from Kirkby Lonsdale's Market Square.
The Friends of Eden, Lakeland & Lunesdale Scenery (FELLS) campaign group claims energy giant E-on wants to build seven 400-foot turbines between the villages of High Biggins, Whittington and Hutton Roof.
A planning application has not yet been submitted but FELLS believe the firm are in the final stages of agreeing rental of the site with the landowners.
Kirkby Lonsdale town councillors recently voted 4-3 against objecting to other plans for six wind turbines on moorland at Armistead, two miles from Old Hutton.
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