Welcome to the Thornton Moor Windfarm Action Group

I am pleased to announce that Lord Reay has already taken the opportunity to resurrect the Wind Turbines (Minimum Distances from Residential Premises) Bill. In an e-mail sent to another windfarm action group (www.t-a-g.org.uk) back in March 2012, Lord Reay confirmed his intentions, which have also been confirmed by the website http://www.dodslegislation.com/bill/2012-13-wind-turbines-minimum-distances-from-residential-premises-bill-hl/ which states that the bill was read [...]

Thornton Moor Windfarm Action Group are furious over an article that was published by the Yorkshire Post last week with the headline ‘Lets blow away myths that surround Bronte windfarm’. The article has been written as an onslaught to everyone fighting against windfarms, not just the Thornton Moor Windfarm Action Group. In fact our beautiful [...]

A scoping report recently published by Yorkshire Wind Power Ltd has revealed that the concrete foundations of the existing 23, soon-to-be decommissioned turbines will remain in situ, along with the underground cables, albeit covered with topsoil. The new turbines, measuring 115m tall and almost 2 and a half times the height of the existing turbines, will require [...]

A proposed wind farm in the heart of Scotland has been put on the back burner today by Banks Renewables, the same developer behind plans for the Thornton Moor Windfarm, amid revelations that the site is not windy enough!   The 10 turbines proposed for Ard Ghoath would be 115 metres tall and located next [...]

Do you have a special photograph of Thornton Moor that you would like including on our gallery? Old or recent, professional or amateur, we would love to see your take on what this area means to you. Please e-mail your photos to info@sayno2windfarm.org.uk If you do not approve of your photos being published, shared or [...]

TMWAG are honoured and thrilled to annouce that the famous artist, Ashley Jackson, has contacted TMWAG to pledge his support for our Windfarm Campaign. Since opening his first gallery back in 1963, he has become one of the country’s leading and most successful landscape watercolorists. In an email to TMWAG, he has spoken passionately of [...]

If you haven’t done so already, please visit our online petition page to see how your voice can help us, and other windfarm action groups to defeat the greedy developers that are attacking the British countryside.

Today sees the launch of a new Government e-petition which aims to resurrect the Bill written by Lord Reay – ‘Wind Turbines (Minimum Distances from Residential Premises)’ which was dismissed by the House of Lords earlier this year. The petition has been lodged by the Thornton Moor Windfarm Action Group as part of their strategy [...]

We thought that after two years of just ‘making do’ we would go professional!!  We hope you enjoy the new experience, although we are still working hard to add all our information, so please be patient.  In the meantime if you have any ideas for what you would like to see on here, please contact [...]

We are disappointed to announce that on 11th April 2012, planning permission was granted by Bradford Council for Banks Renewables to erect the 60m wind mast on Thornton Moor.  Four Councillors voted in favour of the plans including Keith Dredge, Jan Smithies, John Cole and Imdad Hussain.  Councillors Valerie Binney and Shabir Hussain voted against the [...]