Stop Calderdale Wind Farm

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Or protected peatland!

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

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

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...

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

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

@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

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

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...

@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

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

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

@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

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

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

My back page column

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.

When is a public consultation not a public consultation? When the information we’re given is incorrect, insufficient and misleading. Cancel this consultation NOW! Read Nick MacKinnon’s blog on @markavery.bsky.social markavery.info/category/wal... and our leaflet here

UGHHHH

Our crowdfund has hit over £5000 - thanks very much to everyone who has donated! #TeamPeat #TeamBat #TeamNewt #TeamNature

There's one singing its heart out on the edge of #Walshaw #moor right now!

First #cuckoo heard today on the edge of #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...

Well worth a read by anyone with an interest in community campaigning against inappropriate developments on deep peat👍 Absolute respect to @protectourpeat.bsky.social @green--Jenny.bsky.social & Co. Thanks too to @markavery.bsky.social for making Neil Mackinnon's post available through his website👍

Nick MacKinnon's blog, courtesy of @markavery.bsky.social is out now: markavery.info/2025/04/11/g... - potential questions from the Saudi backer's KC to the one man band developer include 'why is there a family living in our substation and does my client maintain their hanging baskets?'