CONCERNED local residents have formed an action group to fight a proposal to build a wind turbine power station in unspoilt landscape bordering Dartmoor.
The Den Brook Valley Wind Turbine Action Group (DBVAG) say they are dedicated to preserving the area from industrialisation.
Developers have already been granted planning consent for a 50-metre trial anemometer as part of their proposal to create a wind farm on land between North Tawton, Bow and Spreyton.
The action group say they are concerned the developers want to erect ten to 19 giant wind turbines which could be as high as 331ft (101m) tall and would have a visual impact on nearby homes.
The group have met Noel Edmonds, a Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Devon, in his capacity as chairman of the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF), a non-profit organisation with a mandate to ?encourage the development of renewable energy and energy conservation whilst safeguarding the landscapes of the United Kingdom from unsustainable industrialisation?.
The action group believes support for their cause will continue to grow. They say the construction of onshore wind turbine power stations is not the answer to the United Kingdom?s energy needs.
Action group member Jenny Rosser said: ?The UK needs to learn from other countries in Europe, including Germany and Denmark, where mass-deployment of very heavily subsidised onshore wind turbines has proved immensely costly and largely ineffective.?
Mrs Rosser said that while the group supported research into economic and effective renewable energy, they felt ?broad scale industrialisation of the countryside? with wind turbine development was ?neither green nor sustainable?.
The British Wind Energy Association has recently launched its own nationwide campaign ?Embrace the Revolution? to provide the opportunity for what they call the ?silent majority? in favour of wind power to make themselves heard.