Contentious (to the point of being hopeless IMHO) proposal for Calderdale Energy 'Park' gets pushbacks from @calderdale.bsky.social on detail, timing & consultation period markavery.info/2026/03/04/c...
Planning Authority doing its job.👍
#turbines #walshaw #peat #floods #climate
Guest blog: Walshaw Turbine 13 by Nick MacKinnon
'Plans' for giant windfarm on deep peat get a very informed tongue-lashing from Nick & dog.
"This looks pretty steep to me. Woof!"
Blog: markavery.info/2025/10/31/g...
#peat #slopes #floods #daft #fenton-glynnMP #mooreMP #moor #walshaw
Guest blog - Blanket bogs and windfarms by @green--jenny.bsky.social
Blog: markavery.info/2025/10/30/g...
#peat #bog #turbines #renewable #climate #walshaw #hebden #haworth #floods #petition #PIB
If you live in #laneshawbridge #trawden or #colne or use Two Laws/Lancashire Moor Road, this makes interesting reading…
#wycoller #pendle #walshaw #stopcalderdalewindfarm #protectourpeat #brontëcountry #blanketbog
Ali West goes in search of the BESS using this helpful map (left) supplied to us locals by Calderdale Energy Park. Thanks as ever to @markavery.bsky.social #stopcalderdalewindfarm #saveourpeat #batteryenergystoragesystem #walshaw #moor #peat #curlews #Brontës
The latest Walshaw Turbine guest blog. This one by Ali West about the hunting of the BESS aka Battery Energy Storage System markavery.info/2025/09/04/g...
By way of Narnia, Snarks, Cottingham and Heathrow and so to Walshaw Moor.
#wind #turbines #peat #grouse #walshaw
If you love #peat, come along to ‘A Lovesong for Peat’, an evening of #film #music and #poetry at historic Ponden Mill in the valley below #Walshaw Moor. Thursday 4 September and it’s FREE! Tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-lovesong...
Happy Wuthering Heights Day! Today we celebrate the 207th birthday of Emily Brontë and the 67th birthday of Kate Bush. It’s a beautiful day out on #Walshaw Moor.
Image by @wutheringhikes after an illustration for #WutheringHeights by Fritz Eichenberg #StopCalderdaleWindFarm #protectourpeat
Walshaw turbines: much wuthering on the heights and the heights of incompetence?
Blog by Nick McKinnon markavery.info/2025/07/30/g...
#wind #walshaw #haworth #katebush #peat #climate
We have a new website!
www.stopcalderdaleenergypark.com
#savewalshawmoor
#stopcalderdalewindfarm #peat #moor #blanketbog #curlew #lapwing #merlin #skylark #sphagnum #walshaw #hebdenbridge #haworth #bronte #brontë #wutheringheights #plath #tedhughes #brontecountry #brontëcountry
Nick MacKinnon’s latest blog is out now, courtesy of @markavery.bsky.social Welcome to Bannister Country! markavery.info/2025/07/04/g...
#peat #Walshaw #stopcalderdalewindfarm #brontë #narnia #moneymoneymoney #moor #teampeat #teamnature #windturbine #wutheringheights
Latest Walshaw Turbine blog by Nick Mackinnon which explores, in impressive detail, how you can/can't get wind turbine blades round tricky corners and how flood risk increases with tracks and turbine numbers. markavery.info/2025/07/04/g...
#walshaw #haworth #hebden #flood #turbines #wind #climate
It’s #Glastonbury ! We thought you’d like to see a comparison of the #Glasto site (c. 600 ha) with the proposed windfarm site on #Walshaw #moor (2352ha) #peat #Brontë #stopcalderdalewindfarm #teampeat #teamnature #WutheringHeights #protectourpeat
Photographer Kate Haslegrave has a great blog out courtesy of @markavery.bsky.social in which she walks to the proposed site of Turbine 25, Shooting Boxes, - or as close as she can get, given that #Walshaw #Moor full of #curlew #lapwing #goldenplover chicks right now. markavery.info/2025/06/20/g...
Our petition to Parliament to ban wind farms on protected peatland in England has 10000+ names! Thanks to all who’ve signed so far - let’s keep on keeping on and #protectourpeat #stopcalderdalewindfarm #teampeat #teamnature #teambat #teamnewt #walshaw #moor #peat #blanketbog
The Book of Bogs is now available from Little Toller.
Edited by Anna Chilvers + Clare Shaw, it's rooted in the desire to protect #Walshaw moor with its #blanket bogs and rare species from a cynical proposal to make it the site of England's biggest wind farm. www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
When is peat map not a peat map? When it’s a work of fiction dreamed up by a developer who wants to trash #Walshaw #Moor
On #Walshaw Moor, #curlews are curleeing, #lapwings are peewitting,meadow #pipits are piping. It's all full of fresh life under a high blue sky. Please help us save this highly protected #SAC #SPA #peatland Donate: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/protect-ou... Sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Great blog by @green--jenny.bsky.social courtesy of @markavery.bsky.social ... This is why wind farms must not be built on protected peatland:
markavery.info/2025/03/15/g...
#blanketbog #hebdenbridge #floods #Walshaw #grouse #wheelerdealer #protectourpeat
Guest blog: Short walks along streets that flood by Jenny Shepherd from Hebden Bridge markavery.info/2025/03/15/g...
#peat #petition #floods #grouse #burning #drainage #walshaw #Defra #climate #wind #turbines
Thks #RobbieMooreMP for speaking for #TeamPeat in HoC yesterday and highlighting the threat to #Walshaw moor of a #windfarm on highly protected #SAC #SPA #peatland. @lucympowell.bsky.social you IGNORED that important point. Planning to break environmental law to get it built? fb.watch/yjS0gxSltN/
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social the curlews are arriving on #Walshaw moor, to an uncertain future. Please sign and share our national petition to ban wind farms on protected peatland petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Latest #Walshaw Turbine blog looks at #peat depth on the site of proposed large windfarm in W.Yorks markavery.info/2025/02/28/g...
If you don't think such developments should destroy #carbon stores then consider this petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
OUR wealthy grouse moor owner has instead chosen to flog his SAC SPA moor to developers who want to build a massive wind farm on the protected peatland - #Walshaw moor has history you’ll know of it! Sign our our petition to ban wind farms on protected peatland petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
The latest guest blog from Walshaw Moor and Nick MacKinnon, Turbine 14 markavery.info/2025/02/12/g...
Red Grouse cycles, peat depths and Crossbills. #calderdale #peat #grouse #walshaw #turbine #shooting #hairstreak #moths #vapourer #stoats #orwell #airedale
On the left, blanket bog. On the right, golden plover chicks. #Walshaw moor is a vitally important SAC and SPA. Wind farms should not be built on protected #peatland There are lots more suitable sites. PLEASE sign and share our petition #TeamBat #TeamNewt petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
New petition: Ban wind farms on protected peat land petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Press release in my blog markavery.info/2025/01/27/n...
I've signed 'cos turbines on deep peat make no sense.
#hebden #bridge #haworth #calderdale #bronte #walshaw
The latest instalment of the Walshaw Moor turbines story - a sorry tale of potentially large-scale habitat destruction & C loss markavery.info/2025/01/02/g...
#windfarm #carbon #miliband #peat #deeppeat #curlew #lapwing #plover #grouse #yorkshire #haworth #bronte #calderdale #walshaw #moorland #£££
