{"id":769,"date":"2009-07-18T14:48:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T13:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/?p=769"},"modified":"2014-05-20T09:07:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T08:07:28","slug":"britains-only-large-scale-wind-turbine-manufacturer-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2009\/07\/18\/britains-only-large-scale-wind-turbine-manufacturer-to-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s only large-scale wind turbine manufacturer to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vestas.com\/\">Vestas<\/a>, the wind turbine manufacturing plant in Newport on the Isle of Wight is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/environment\/article6710815.ece\">set to close this week<\/a> despite a government pledge only hours earlier to build a green economy.  There is a Friends of the Earth campaign about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foe.co.uk\/campaigns\/climate\/press_for_change\/vestas_petition_20414.html\">here<\/a>, urging the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills to save the UK&#8217;s wind power industry.<\/p>\n<p>All of this comes at a time when the UK govenment has been accused of having an energy policy that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/8146824.stm\">too focused on wind power<\/a>, and when companies trying to increase the UK&#8217;s supply of wind power such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecotricity.co.uk\/wind-parks\/\">Ecotricity<\/a> are fighting years-long planning battles with local councils to install any.  Dorset, the county where I live, has no wind turbines at all and one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecotricity.co.uk\/news\/silton-wind-park-application-turned-down\">planning proposal was recently turned down<\/a> by the council despite having been recommended by their own planning officers.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a mad world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vestas, the wind turbine manufacturing plant in Newport on the Isle of Wight is set to close this week despite a government pledge only hours earlier to build a green economy. 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