ABOUT US

Friends of Rural Cumbria's Environment (FORCE) was formed by a large number of residents of the Boltons Parish in response to an application by National Wind Power to install three wind turbines on land owned by Mike Jefferson at High Pow Farm, Bolton New Houses in 2003.

Since then we have been joined by many others from across Cumbria, and beyond, who share our deep concern that the Cumbrian landscape is being too easily given over to the development of wind power stations. We are committed to opposing inappropriately sited wind energy development in Cumbria and to challenging government guidelines which fail to protect the countryside from this unacceptable industrialisation.

Tony Cunningham MP (Labour) said of FORCE, in a letter to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, "Their reservations are about the location of wind turbines county-wide and I believe their views should be given consideration."

The FORCE committee are:
Avril Hemsley-Rose (Chairman)
Joan Scott (Treasurer)
Eddy Atherton
Graham Conyers
Hazel Atherton
David Falcon
David Colborn
Jackie Tudhope
Sarah Hemsley-Rose (Secretary)
Richard Harris
Jean Gordon.