Build It Here
11.11.2007
A South Tyneside green campaigner has called for plans to build a giant wind turbine at the A & P yard in Hebburn to be revived.
The original plans were believed to have been withdrawn after moans from the anti renewable energy lobby.
Award-winning environmental campaigner Bryan Atkinson and Green Party parliamentary candidate for Jarrow constituency wants to see the wind turbine application re-submitted with a clear message of support from South Tyneside Council, but also thinks that the North East should be going much further by designing and building renewable energy technologies in the region's underused shipyards.
Bryan said:
“It’s time to turn all the talk about climate change into action. We need to be proactive and build wind turbines on the Tyne’s established industrial sites where cranes once stood. The North East should be leading the way and creating jobs in the clean renewable energy sector, harnessing the world-beating engineering skills that the Tyne is famous for.
"Let’s be forward thinking and give the go-ahead to the wind turbine at A & P.”
Notes
Bryan Atkinson was presented with the 2007 Earthmover Award by Friends of the Earth in a ceremony at the group's national conference at Reading University.