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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Patrick Barkham

‘It makes no sense’: the battle over plans for a windfarm by the Yorkshire Dales

Michael Kusz sits next to a model of one of the proposed wind turbines that stands about two-and-a-half metres high; a scale model of an electricity pylon is dwarfed beneath it
Michael Kusz, with his scale model of a proposed Hope Moor wind turbine alongside a scaled electricity pylon to show the height of what are planned to be the UK’s largest onshore turbines. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Guardian

Instead of a slingshot, the Davids are brandishing a sculpture and a coffee table book. Their Goliaths are a Norwegian energy company and a UK energy secretary with renewable targets to meet.

A fierce battle has begun over one of England’s tallest windfarms, proposed for deep peat moorland overlooking the Yorkshire Dales national park, in what residents say will mark the irrevocable industrialisation of their rural landscape.

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