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You are too young to remember the Windscale fire of 1957.
Some of us oldies do not want history repeated - we are NIMBYs for good reason

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Some 50 years later I think we could at least reassess the situation on nuclear safety.

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I tend to agree Andrew, after all we have actualy walked on the moon since then:rolleyes:

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The french have had nuclear accidents too
TWO ACCIDENTS RAISING QUESTIONS ABOUT FRANCE'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM - The New York Times

At the time of the fire, and for many years after, my parents had a weekend caravan on the coast at Crag Bank on Morecambe Bay.
They spent every weekend there. My father loved to walk out on the mudflats for most of those weekend days in summer.
Radioactive hotspots in the Wyre estuary have been reported less than 10 years ago.

My father died from multiple myeloma (white blood cell cancer)

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The debate on wind farms on Ossy Moors is back on again of course. New Planning Application going in I'm led to believe.

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I have read the this revised application will be for fewer turbines, and on Oswaldtwistle side of the boundary only.
National heritage intervened because of the prehistoric stone circle site.

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That's my understanding also Margaret. The consultation rounds are going on at the moment.

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So Hyndburn Council won't have to share(with Rossendale) the big chunk of money provided by the energy generation company as 'compensation'

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Not forgetting, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl. I never suggested that I was a strong proponent of Nuclear Energy, I am not, (what reasonable choice do we have?). But the stupidity of wind farms, .... well why don't we start a theory on that then.

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Reduced from 24 turbines to 12, they have a website to keep people in touch:

Hyndburn Wind Farm - Welcome to the Hyndburn Wind Farm website

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There is a theory ;) that nicholas Tesla, who invented the system of alternating current, later devised way to produce free energy.
His experiment results were impounded by the US government who had a vested interest in oil production.
Chapter 7 of this link outlines the method he is credited with inventing.

Lost Journals of Nicholas Tesla - Tesla and Science-Research

but of course this is just a 'conspiracy':rolleyes:

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They say that the new Planning Application addresses some of the concerns that were brought up around the original application

I haven't heard the one about compensation before.Although from the company's point of view, its probably easier to deal with one planning authority

I suppose there may also be talk of a section 106 agreement being attached to the application, which is a form of compensation.I'm not sure

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I do recall 'compensation' being mentioned in old press reports.
I have found reference to such 'compen' being paid in Scotland here-
BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Village fights for wind farm cash

ScottishPower, which is behind the plan, is expected to make regular payments for the benefit of the local community, totalling about £100,000 per year.

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They are offering £100,000 to the Environmental Fund.

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LEF Website
...so PB won't get a say in how it is spent?.....I can't see that happening :D