The successful ‘Stop Flaight Hill wind farm’ campaign 30 years or so ago organised themselves through a number of sub-groups…
FAQ: Don’t onshore wind farm planning laws need to be relaxed?
Welcome to Stop Calderdale Wind Farm FAQs. This is the first one we’re answering, to the best of our knowledge…
BogTastic Events
Please come back soon for events, including details of the Mass Wuthering Heights dance event on 28th July – part…
“Community consultation” this summer on Calderdale wind farm proposal’s next steps
Calderdale Wind Farm Ltd’s “community consultation” is to take place over one month this summer. Run by communications and pr…
Calderdale and Kirklees Councils to develop nature restoration public-private funding business case
Ban the Burn’s big campaign aim is that once the wind farm proposal has been sent packing (hopefully at the…
Restore nature now – stop Calderdale Wind Farm
We are in an intertwined climate and nature emergency and the need to protect nature is as urgent and significant…
Parish Council meetings in April/May 2024
If you’re attending a parish council meeting this month, it’d be great if you’d email us and let us know…
Would Natural England and Defra protect Walshaw Moor from biodiversity loss caused by the proposed wind farm?
Exposed peat, Shackleton, Walshaw Moor Estate, May 2019 Biodiversity (the variety of animal and plant life) on the proposed wind…
Council must stop wind farm unless there’s no reasonable scientific doubt that it wouldn’t damage Walshaw Moor
The developers’ draft scoping report (8.7 Proposed Mitigation, p56) admits that habitat loss and degradation would occur as a result…
Stop Calderdale Wind Farm! rally, 2.30pm, 11th March, Halifax Town Hall
Campaigners who support onshore wind farms – but not on peatland, like Walshaw Moor – want to inform Calderdale Climate…
How do you measure “community support” – which is needed for onshore wind farms in England to get planning permission?
Under new onshore wind farm planning regulations for England, the Calderdale Wind Farm proposal can only get planning permission if…
Parish Council meetings in March
If you’re attending a parish council meeting this month, it’d be great if you’d email us and let us know…
Campaign action plan – February 2024
Ban the Burn! campaign action plan February 2024 Agreed at 14.2.2024 meeting This month we’re focussing on: Carbon impacts Carbon…
Calculating the carbon impact of wind farms on peat
This blog post tries to outline in simple terms some key info about these vital questions. Calderdale Wind Farm Ltd’s…
What can I do to Stop Calderdale Wind Farm?
Our key campaign lever: without “community support”, Calderdale Wind Farm can’t go ahead Without demonstrable community support, the planning application…
Please sign Boggarts’ Open Letter to Times Literary Supplement
The moor stretches from the Lancashire border to the edge of Haworth and Top Withens, the reputed location of Wuthering…
What do we want? Blanket bog restoration! When do we want it? Now!
Here are some first thoughts about a landscape scale blanket bog restoration programme, as an alternative to the proposed windfarm.…
Wind farms on peat and flood risk
The basic issue is that building, operating and decommissioning a wind farm on blanket bog damages the peat’s hydrology. Healthy…
Rare clubmoss found on site of proposed turbine 19
Some rare Clubmoss has been relocated and another rare clubmoss has been found up on Walshaw Moor where the proposed…
New onshore wind planning policy makes it easier to build windfarms in areas ruled out by local plans
This blog post tries to clarify the implications of the UK government’s new onshore wind planning policy, announced just days…
Following the Calderdale Wind Farm money – would you want your bank or pension fund investing in this scheme?
This blog post looks at what we know and what we don’t know about the corporate players and the money…
Developers unable to tell parish councils how green Calderdale Wind Farm- generated electricity would be
In December, the hillltop parish councils plus two Calderdale Councillors presented 22 questions to the Calderdale WInd Farm developer Christopher…
Walshaw Moor Estate owner agrees land sale to property management company, if planning permission’s granted for huge wind farm on SSSI
A Saudi-owned and -controlled company called Calderdale Windfarm Ltd, in partnership with a Wiltshire-based residents property management company called Worldwide…
Open letter to sign and share about the applicability going forward of carbon calculator for windfarms on peat
Thanks to the 160+ people who’ve so far signed this open letter to Calderdale Council Climate and Environment Team. Please…
Campaign Action Plan New Year 2024
These actions were agreed at the Ban The Burn meeting before Xmas. Finalise and publish open letter v2 re Scottish…