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Natural England Raises Fundamental Concerns Over Calderdale Energy Park
Natural England’s statutory response to the proposed Calderdale Energy Park (CEP) has raised a wide range of concerns about the environmental information currently provided for the development on Walshaw Moor. Dated 10 June 2026, the response follows the developer’s...
Natural England on Calderdale Energy Park: “likely to be insurmountable”
The question has been hanging over Calderdale Energy Park for some time: what does Natural England, the government’s statutory adviser on the natural environment, actually think about the proposal to build on Walshaw Moor?A covering letter dated 10 June 2026,...
Calderdale Energy Park is a Zombie: The Crow Hill Evidence
The Walshaw Turbines Research Group (WTRG), part of Stronger Together, has published a detailed new analysis of Crow Hill and the proposed Calderdale Energy Park (CEP) on Walshaw Moor. The report sets out the evidence behind potential legal action concerning the...
Alternatives to Walshaw Moor: WTRG Report on Algihaz Site Selection
The Walshaw Turbines Research Group (WTRG), part of Stronger Together, has published its second report for Mustapha Hajjar, CEO of Algihaz Holding. The report examines one of the most important questions surrounding the proposed Calderdale Energy Park (CEP): what...
Algihaz Due Diligence Failure: WTRG Report on Walshaw Moor
The Walshaw Turbines Research Group (WTRG), part of Stronger Together, has published the first in a series of reports for Mustapha Hajjar, CEO of Algihaz Holding, concerning the proposed Calderdale Energy Park (CEP) on Walshaw Moor. This first report examines what...
Yet more mistakes by CEP spotted by us
From Nick MacKinnon (Editor) WTRG Upper Heights Farm, Stanbury, BD22 0HH 01535 649359 nipmackinnon@gmail.com To: Christian Egal (Project Director); Christopher Wilson (Executive Chair); Ghazi Osman (Director of CWF Ltd) Katherine King (Planning Inspectorate) Material...
CEP say “it’s not your job to check the PEIR” – Nick MacKinnon says “ I have to check it because you don’t”
The other day, ST campaigner Nick MacKinnon was working on producing a fairly specialised map of the proposed wind farm site for use in advising a statutory consultee. This is bread and butter for Nick and he set out on what he thought would be a pretty mundane task....
This is what Top Withins will look like
In their Preliminary Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) Calderdale Energy Park have thoughtfully provided us with an image of how the landscape at Top Withins (widely believed to be the inspiration for the location of Wuthering Heights in Emily Brontë's novel of that...
CEP debate at Westminster
Keighley and Ilkley MP Robbie Moore brought forward a debate in Westminster Hall on Tuesday 21 April, ‘Windfarm development on protected peatland’. His opening speech was about Calderdale Energy Park.Stop Calderdale Energy Park © by Stronger Together to Stop...
Peat Slides
Dr Osman should have done his own due diligence in February 2022 and it would have taken no more than an hour with a competent neutral. Aggregates? Access? Designations? Who is Emily Brontë? How many MW on the flat topsvale like Scout Moor? Connection?). Instead he is...
Calderdale Energy Park have issued their Statement of Community Consultation (SOCC)
The consultation will run from 8 April to 11.59pm on 10 June 2026. The Primary Consultation Zone has been extended to cover Haworth, Colne and Oakworth. ANYONE WHO LIVES OR WORKS IN THE PCZ OR NEAR THE PROPOSED WALSHAW MOOR SITE CAN GIVE THEIR VIEWS TO THE DEVELOPERS....
Our response to the proposal for Calderdale Energy Park (240 MW)
The 34-turbine proposal which we call CEP (240 MW), launched on 3 February 2026, should not be the proposal for the Direct Consent Order (DCO) application. It is a quick fix to try to get through the next stages of the planning process. The reason the developers have...
Calderdale Energy Park 240 MW
CEP 240MW is the latest attempt by Saudi-financed Calderdale Wind Farm Ltd to design a wind farm on Walshaw Moor. It would destroy the internationally designated Special Protection Area, one of the most successful breeding places for red-listed curlews and lapwings...
The King’s Pennine Gateway is a wonder of the world
The spectacular success of the launch of the Pennine Gateway National Nature Reserve (NNR) on 13 May 2025 has brought tremendous praise for Bradford Council, Natural England and for its sponsor, His Majesty the King and his advisors. This praise has recently...
Mark Avery guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 16 by Nick MacKinnon
This blog was sent for comment to Paul Duncan (Natural England) Richard Bannister (Walshaw Moor Estate) Christian Egal (CWF Ltd) Marc Davies (Logika) and James Lightbody (Natural Power) on 29 December 2025. Excerpt: “The unprecedented steepness of half the CEP sites...
Walshaw Turbine 20 by Nick Mackinnon
27 July 2025 In this blog we shall let aerodynamics cut CEP to shreds. The wind is always primary in reputable wind farm design. It wasn’t in CEP. Kate Bush (67) and Emily Brontë (207) share a birthday on 30 July, and Clare Shaw of the Stronger Together Boggarts group...
Carbon sink – conservation management at Munsary, Plantlife’s peatland nature reserve
Sunday 27th of July was International Bog Day, and the charity Plantlife re-released a You Tube video from a conference pre the Glasgow COP in 2021, about the peatlands on their reserve at Munsary part of the Flow Country in Sutherland. While this blanket bog may seem...
Nick MacKinnon answers the naturally hostile questions put to him by Orlando Jenkinson Windpower Monthly, bible of the wind industry since 1985.
How has the developer CWF Ltd engaged with the community on the proposals for a wind farm on Walshaw Moor? Calderdale Wind Farm Ltd (CWF Ltd) has advanced two proposals on Walshaw Moor. The first proposal was for a 65 turbine 312 MW wind farm, Calderdale Wind Farm...
Understanding the CEP peat depth survey maps
The peat depth map shown on the CEP website is the fourth one using the same data collected in 2022 by a firm called TNEI. Two young employees probed the peat at 100 metre intervals. “A lad and a lass were sliding about north of Gablestone. Peat’s deep there.”. This...
Latest government policy and what it means for Walshaw Moor and CEP
In July 2025 the government paper “Unlocking benefits for people, nature and climate: Actions to jointly address climate change and biodiversity loss in England” was published. In this article we will work out what it means for Walshaw Moor. It is very good news for...
Is Calderdale Energy Park properly designed?
In this article we shall see that Calderdale Energy Park is not the result of a proper design process and it was therefore unlawful under the Gunning Principles to present it for Public Consultation. A turbine extracts energy from the wind, so behind the blades is a...
Robbie Moore MP on Calderdale Wind Farm’s Proposed Site
MP Robbie Moore tells us why he's staunchly opposed to Calderdale Energy Park's proposed wind farm. VLOG.
Will Calderdale Energy Park cause a repeat of the 1824 Bog Burst?
The path of the 1824 bog burst from Stanbury Bog into Ponden Clough. The river of peat and boulders was up to five metres deep and was eventually ten kilometres long. The potential for a similar huge peat slide from the Sandy Moor section of the Option B access road...
Flooding and Calderdale Energy Park
2015 flood in Mytholmroyd. Photo: BBCThe Calder Valley has suffered frequent devastating flooding, in 2012, 2015 and 2020. The Walshaw catchment is already known to be very dangerous. This post will show how CEP will greatly add to catastrophic flood risk. Most of the...
Robbie Moore MP VLOG to Save Brontë Country
MP Robbie Moore tells us why he's staunchly opposed to Calderdale Energy Park's proposed wind farm. VLOG.
How You Can Help
GETTING INVOLVED
Speak Out
Share your thoughts with your communities at home, online, and attend organised local meetings.
Write to Ed Miliband, current Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary.State@energysecurity.gov.uk and tell them that there is no need to build wind farms on protected peatland.
Stronger Together
You are welcome to join our campaign group and add your voice and vote to the many - The Calderdale Windfarm Action Group is the main Facebook group representing all of the eight campaign groups of Stronger Together to Stop Calderdale Windfarm.
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