Against
Turbines At Chiplow
In May 2007 the power
company E.ON announced their intention to build a wind farm on arable farmland
between the villages of Syderstone and Bagthorpe, which the power company calls
Chiplow. The villages of Syderstone and
Bagthorpe are situated in West Norfolk about seven miles west of Fakenham on
the A148 road to Kings Lynn. E.ON
intend to erect five giant 325 foot high industrial turbines on the site, which
will be visible up to twenty-five miles away.
The
Chiplow site is directly in the flight path of the hundreds of thousands of
pink foot geese which visit the Norfolk coast during the winter months. During the winter of 2007/08 local residents
monitored geese movements over the Chiplow site, which amounted to a staggering
total of 40,200 pink footed geese. This
short 10 minute film captures spectacular footage from that log.
Click here to watch the film, which is
in wmv format for Windows Media Player.
A pink foot goose in flight