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Questions
to Community Windpower Ltd and their answers.
Tremail
29th November & Camelford 30th November 2007
Q)
When are Community Windpower going to submit an
application?
A)
Hopefully before the end of the year, towards the end of
December.
Q)
Due to the extremely short notice given for the two
exhibition days, about 7 days, where have you advertised
locally to ensure that everone in the area, including
those in neighbouring parishes, knows you will be here?
A)
We put up some posters in shops in Camelford and on the
notice board at Tremail. We sent an email to local radio
and issued a short press release to local papers.
We sent information pack to other parish councils in the
area. We knocked on a few doors around
Tremail on the day before the exhibition there. Of course
it is also on our website.
Q)
Many people in this area
have no access to the internet and have no way of finding
out what is happening other than local papers or radio. So,
you placed not one advert in any newspaper to ensure it
was published, you did no door-to-door leafletting in the
wider Davidstow area or surrounding parishes? You did not
contact any local radio station directly or personally to
make sure the times of the exhibitions were aired?
A)
No.
Q)
On your website it states: 'Following
community consultation, Community Windpower have re-designed
their Davidstow Community Windfarm proposal'. What
community consultation was this?
A)
From emails that we have received commenting on the
proposal.
Q)
But that is not community consultation. That is
feedback from your website!
A)
Well, it was also
from the last exhibitions back in August.
Q)
How big are the concrete bases for the turbines and how
deep with the foundations be?
A)
The concrete bases will be 15m x 15m (50ft x 50ft) and the
depth will be 2m - 2.5 m (7ft - 8ft ) deep.
Q)
Only 2m - 2.5m deep, even though the site is mostly peat
bog and marsh?
A)
Yes, this depth will be perfectly adequate!
Q)
What percentage of birds do you expect to be killed by the
turbines?
A)
Very few if any, the birds will just fly around them.
Q)
Even though the starlings are in flocks of about 1 million
birds and turbulence from the turning blades tend to
disorient birds and even suck them in?
A)
They will just avoid them.
Q) On
your literature it states: "Shadow Flicker -
Shadow flicker can occur when the suns rays pass between
turbine blades and through an aperture, like a window, and
also when the sun is low in the sky (e.g. in the early
morning or late evening).
We
can accurately predict when this could happen and
therefore design out the problem. The site will be
designed to cause no disturbance to nearby
residents."
Just
how are you going to 'design out' shadow flicker?
A)
We have designed it out by moving the turbines away from
peoples' homes.
Q)
But that is moving turbines, not designing out the problem
based on predicted times of shadow flicker. What do you
mean by "We can accurately predict when
this could happen and therefore design out the
problem" ?
A)
As I said, we have designed it out by moving the turbines
away from peoples' homes.
Q)
Why are you proposing to build your turbines on such a
sensitive area?
A)
I think that this is a very good site for a wind farm.
Q)
Have you actually been up there?
A)
Yes of course, as the project manager I have been there
many times and I think it is a very good site.
Q)
Even though it will mean digging up peat bog and peat
stores more CO2 per acre than a rainforest, you still
think that it is a good site for a wind farm?
A)
Yes
These
are just some of the questions we put to them. We will
post more when we have feedback from all of our members.
If you have anything to contribute, please email it to webmaster@stinc.co.uk
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