SOUTH West MEP Ashley Fox is due to visit Swanage today to meet opponents of the huge Navitus Bay Wind Farm scheme.
Mr Fox recently added his name to a list of signatories of a letter addressed to Prime Minister David Cameron, urging him to reconsider the subsidies currently offered for wind farms in this country.
The MEP said: “Wind may be a source of renewable energy, but it isn’t a cheap one.”
Eneco wants to establish an offshore wind farm in Poole Bay that would dwarf the current largest in the world.
Challenge Navitus, a Swanage-based group opposing the project, says the turbines’ most likely height would be 189 metres – taller than the ‘Gherkin’ building in London.
The wind farm would occupy 76 square miles between Purbeck and the Isle of Wight and generate 900MW to 1,200MW.
Plans that have not yet been submitted will contain 150-300 wind turbines, about 10 miles from Bournemouth and Poole, and around eight miles from Swanage.
Mr Fox is set to meet Swanage Mayor Bill Trite and Mike Stollery, chairman of the Purbeck Society.
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