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Stop Calderdale Wind Farm @protectourpeat.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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Stop Calderdale Wind Farm @protectourpeat.bsky.social · Aug 21

We were baffled when one of our campaign banners mysteriously disappeared today, the very day when Mr Bannister was out shooting in the moor. Of course we were delighted to find it in one of his gun buses! HOW can it have got there? Delighted at this public spirited action against nasty thieves!

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Stop Calderdale Wind Farm @protectourpeat.bsky.social · Aug 16

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...

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Stop Calderdale Wind Farm @protectourpeat.bsky.social · Jul 30

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

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Stop Calderdale Wind Farm @protectourpeat.bsky.social · Jul 29

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

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Stop Calderdale Wind Farm @protectourpeat.bsky.social · Jul 28

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hundreds join Wuthering Heights tribute on Brontë moors

Kate Bush and Emily Brontë fans join a tribute to Wuthering Heights song on Penistone Hill .

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Stop Calderdale Wind Farm @protectourpeat.bsky.social · Jul 27

The global phenomenon that is The Most Wuthering Day Ever came to #Haworth for the first time today. The aim was to raise funds for @womensaid.bsky.social and for our campaign to #stopcalderdalewindfarm and it was amazing! #wutheringheights #katebush #brontë

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Stop Calderdale Wind Farm @protectourpeat.bsky.social · Jul 18

New blog out thanks to @markavery.bsky.social in which John Page walks to the site on Stanbury moor of the great big burst of 1824 experienced by Emily and Anne Brontë John’s guided by a walk described by Michael Stewart and mapped by @chrisgoddardmap.bsky.social markavery.info/2025/07/17/g...

Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 29 by John Page – Mark Avery

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Stop Calderdale Wind Farm @protectourpeat.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thank you @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ed Miliband would let a turbine farm destroy Brontë country. We need net zero, but at what cost? | Simon Jenkins

Of course the climate crisis must be confronted, but history, tranquility and beauty must also count for something, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Stop Calderdale Wind Farm @protectourpeat.bsky.social · Jul 13

Red-listed birds such as curlews definitely do NOT thrive on wind farms..

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Stop Calderdale Wind Farm @protectourpeat.bsky.social · Jul 13

Or protected peatland!

Stop Calderdale Wind Farm @protectourpeat.bsky.social · Jul 5

Nick MacKinnon, the man behind the blog, is getting ready to wuther! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#stopcalderdalewindfarm #peat #moss #moor #protectourpeat #curlew #lapwing #goldenplover #skylark #haworth #bronte #brontë #wutheringheights #brontecountry #brontëcountry #katebush

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · Jul 4

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

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · Jul 4

Today is the 2nd anniversary of the publication of Reflections.

I reckon it’s a good book but then, I wrote it.

It proposes that we should all be conservation investors rather than passive members/supporters.

See what others think markavery.info/2025/07/04/r...

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Stop Calderdale Wind Farm @protectourpeat.bsky.social · Jul 4

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

Stop Calderdale Wind Farm @protectourpeat.bsky.social · Jun 29

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

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Jenny Shepherd @green--jenny.bsky.social · Jun 29

@peersfortheplanet.bsky.social @protectourpeat.bsky.social @joshfg.bsky.social @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @calderdalegreenp.bsky.social @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social @hampshirekarin.bsky.social @milesking.bsky.social @wclnews.bsky.social @gndrising.bsky.social @protectthewild.bsky.social

Jenny Shepherd @green--jenny.bsky.social · Jun 29

#Peat-friendly #peers speak up for #blanketbog and other #irreplaceable habitats - "not dying in a ditch but in a #chalkstream—we will fight to the last to have these irreplaceable habitats recognised in the Bill as such.” saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/06/28/p...

Peat-friendly peers speak up for blanket bog and other irreplaceable habitats

We asked some peat-friendly peers to speak up to protect blanket bog in the House of Lords’ second reading of the Planning and Infrastructure BIll [As Brought From Commons]. Thanks to ev…

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Stop Calderdale Wind Farm @protectourpeat.bsky.social · Jun 23

Delighted to see this in today’s @thetimes.com . Thank you @davidmbarnett.bsky.social and BRAVO @clareshawpoet.bsky.social #katebush #masswuther #wutheringheights #bronte #brontë #brontecountry #brontëcountry #stopcalderdalewindfarm #stopcalderdaleenergypark #protectourpeat #teampeat

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Stop Calderdale Wind Farm @protectourpeat.bsky.social · Jun 20

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...

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Jenny Shepherd @green--jenny.bsky.social · Jun 1

@protectourpeat.bsky.social #CalderdaleEnergyPark non-statutory consultation events are over. The deadline for responding is 23.59 on 10th June. Here are some ideas bit.ly/444iPbB

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Stop Calderdale Wind Farm @protectourpeat.bsky.social · Jun 8

Bit of an impromptu meeting this Wednesday in Trawden - come along to Nick MacKinnon’s presentation and Q&A

Stop Calderdale Wind Farm @protectourpeat.bsky.social · May 24

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

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Jenny Shepherd @green--jenny.bsky.social · May 12

@kevinclimate.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @carolinelucas.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @sarahdykeld.bsky.social @elliechowns.bsky.social @chrisgoddardmap.bsky.social @joshfg.bsky.social

Jenny Shepherd @green--jenny.bsky.social · May 12

#BanWindfarmsOnProtectedPeatland - Here is the @naturalengland.bsky.social Peat depth map for #WalshawMoor, intended site of 300MW #CalderdaleWindfarm, which has erased most of the blanket bog from their habitats map and produced a poor quality interpolated peat depth map of their own

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Stop Calderdale Wind Farm @protectourpeat.bsky.social · May 12

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

Jenny Shepherd @green--jenny.bsky.social · May 12

@penny-price.bsky.social @forustree.bsky.social @protectourpeat.bsky.social @markmetcalf.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @calderdalegnd.bsky.social @calderdalegreenp.bsky.social @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @mayorofwy.bsky.social

Jenny Shepherd @green--jenny.bsky.social · May 12

#BanWindfarmsOnProtectedPeatland - Here is the @naturalengland.bsky.social Peat depth map for #WalshawMoor, intended site of 300MW #CalderdaleWindfarm, which has erased most of the blanket bog from their habitats map and produced a poor quality interpolated peat depth map of their own

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · May 9

All about responsible dog ownership in this month’s #BBCCountryfile Mag (& a glorious issue it is!) Livestock, wildlife, pick it up or flick it (pick it up) & effects of flea, tick & worm treatments all covered, as well as the comprehensive model dog policy from the @righttoroam.bsky.social team.

Front cover of May’s Magazine feat Raynor Winn’s The Salt Path film interview.

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