Nick MacKinnon is a contract instructor of Maths, English and Medieval Historical past, and lives above Haworth, within the final inhabited home earlier than High Withens = Wuthering Heights. In 1992 he based the profitable Marketing campaign to Save Radio 4 Lengthy Wave whereas in plaster following a rock-climbing accident on Skye. His poem ‘The metric system’ gained the 2013 Ahead Prize. His topical verse and satire seems within the Spectator, and his puzzles and issues within the Sunday Occasions and American Mathematical Month-to-month. Electronic mail: nipmackinnon@gmail.com
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This weblog was given for remark to the senior administration of Logika and to Christian Egal, the Undertaking Director of CEP on 30 September 2025.
The Scoping Report for Calderdale Power Park landed in our inboxes on 3 September 2025. We needed to write our responses by 29 September after which get them in entrance of the Planning Inspectorate. Walshaw Turbine Analysis Group (WTRG) haven’t any direct entry to the method. We rely on a community of individuals among the many Statutory Consultees, together with a few of our readers right here, to advance our observations about what’s lacking or mistaken.
The Calderdale Power Park (CEP) Scoping Report is a catastrophe for Undertaking Director Christian Egal, for sole Director Dr Ghazi Osman, for the Govt Chairman Christopher Wilson and for the fame of Logika. It’s unprofessional and negligent. It’s going to scale back public confidence in onshore wind, and it is a humiliation for the Planning Inspectorate and the Secretary of State.
The CEP Scoping Report was assembled by Logika. This younger firm (based 2020) changed the established Pure Energy (2002) who wrote the 2023 Scoping Report and whose emblem was on the superb maps for the Non-Statutory Session (29 April-10 June 2025). We will miss Pure Energy, who produced top quality cartography with the data CWF Ltd gave them. CWF Ltd had no fame in February 2022. Their behaviour since has led to a lack of reputation, and the divorce between Pure Energy, who make income, pay tax and make use of over 100 folks, together with the superb Emma on reception, and CWF Ltd who solely make losses, have an opaque possession entry at Firms Home, can’t cease making blunders, and make use of no person in any respect, was in all probability inevitable. As bedfellows, Pure Energy and Calderdale Wind Farm Ltd had been like Henry VIII and Catherine Howard.
Scoping Stories are ‘boilerplate’, customary authorized or technical paragraphs cut-and-pasted collectively. A Scoping Report must be fireproof. For a management, I’ve learn the one for Vattenfall’s Glenmarkie that got here out every week after CEP’s. Perhaps the Planning Inspectorate are a softer contact than the Scottish Power Consents Unit; possibly the usual is decrease when presenting to the Secretary of State; however the Glenmarkie Scoping Report has no comical errors in any respect.
There are deep failures of understanding within the CEP Scoping Report, however this weblog will take care of the comical errors that display incompetent administration of the meeting by Logika and negligence in proofreading by CEP Undertaking Director Christian Egal. I have to keep on with the comical errors for 2 causes.
First, these errors are so apparent that the existence of deeper failures of understanding is inevitable. There may be no confidence within the integrity of a Scoping Report that has errors like these.
Second, it’s a severe matter to explain the Scoping Report as ‘comical’ and Christian Egal as ‘negligent’. Logika and CWF Ltd have costly legal professionals, and I don’t need a SLAPP (strategic lawsuit towards public participation). I’m on stable floor with their comical errors. I can not afford to debate the deeper failures as a result of they may come after my pension. We should belief the Planning Inspectorate to learn the Scoping Report responses and discover the deep hassle for themselves. This comical materials will information them.
A part of Logika’s drawback is that the CEP Scoping Report appears to have been sabotaged by a chatbot. The Planning Inspectorate issued steerage on A.I. use in paperwork on 6 September 2024. Logika, and their consumer CWF Ltd. will now have to point out precisely the place the comedy robotic was used within the Scoping Report, although they need to have instructed the Planning Inspectorate this already.
To assist Logika discover the problems, we will name their chatbot ‘Marvin‘. To placate Logika’s legal professionals, who can solely be extra formidable than Logika’s cartographers, we will admit that what we name ‘Marvin’ is likely to be a humanoid referred to as Ford Prefect, a roads skilled who doesn’t know that the M4 hall runs from London to South Wales and that Lancashire is west of Yorkshire.
Together with Marvin and Ford Prefect, the third entity at Logika with ‘foremost character power’ within the Scoping Report is ‘ST’ who made the worst maps.
Marvin has a mind the scale of a planet and his errors will seem on the web for different A.I.s to learn, in order that sooner or later the M65 will develop into the M56, and like the brand new pronunciation of ‘mischievous’ there shall be nothing we are able to do about it.
“That is Boundary Mill. Open the doorways, Marvin.”
“I’m sorry, I can’t try this Richard. The M65 doesn’t go to Colne.”
ST’s work is tragic. We don’t know their gender so I shall name them ‘Skylar T’. Their work is checked by ‘MT’, and I hope to God that MT isn’t Skylar’s mum. Once I despatched this weblog to Logika for remark, I requested them to have a particular take care of ST. It’s Logika administration and CEP Undertaking Director Christian Egal who’re chargeable for the mistaken maps being despatched to the Secretary of State.
I image Skylar as an earnest younger cartographer, a poster of Mercator on their bed room wall, who as soon as believed that map-making may construct a fairer society, however who is aware of now that the Daleks are coming for his or her job in 2026 (“Co-or-din-ate! Co-or-din-ate!”) Maybe Skylar has thrown their dividers into Logika’s machine in a final act of rage and defiance. It’s indicative of Logika’s plans to make use of Daleks as cartographers that their maps of CEP present neither stairs nor contours. Logika have made Walshaw Moor as flat because the planet Skaro.
Some say that the clue is within the identify and ‘ST’ is Stronger Collectively’s mole in Logika. We by no means touch upon safety issues. I’m not going to namecheck the many individuals that noticed all of the work of Marvin, Ford Prefect and Skylar T within the Scoping Report, apart from one, as a result of it’s a second I shall always remember.
Lydia and I had been sitting at reverse ends of the kitchen desk on September 3, gloomily working our approach by means of the impervious boilerplate. Some intuition instructed Lydia to begin on the again on the unpromising part on Shadow Flicker. Right here is the map, drawn by ST, checked by MT, dated 29 August 2025.
Lydia stated, “The map 18-1 on Shadow Flicker has a Turbine 42 and no Turbine 38!”
We checked out one another in astonishment and pleasure. If Christian ‘The Eagle’ Egal had let the phantom T42 rise once more, then there was no restrict to how dangerous this Scoping Report might be. We returned to our work with enthusiasm. The telephone began to ring …
Common readers know all about Turbine 42 and shall be asking themselves, “However how? How?? How within the identify of all that’s holy did Turbine 42 get itself submitted to the Secretary of State?”
There may be a solution!
However first we should briefly recall the lengthy historical past of T42.
Calderdale Power Park was constructed on the ruins of Calderdale Wind Farm. On Launch Day 29 April 2025, the CEP web site was printed with seven maps, displaying the structure of 41 generators relative to the Peat Depths, the Entry, the Worldwide Designations, the Hydrology and so forth. Each map was mistaken as a result of every confirmed a T42 and no T38.
I rang Tom Andrews on the CEP Careline at 9.04 on 1 Might 2025 and talked him by means of the issue. Turning into conscious {that a} T42 in a 41-turbine structure was as unwelcome as ordering a Napoli at Pizza Specific and discovering Prince Andrew on the subsequent desk tucking into an American Sizzling, Tom stated, “I must refer this to Technical.”
At 10:30 this message popped up on the CEP web site.
It’s all the time inadvisable to say that your opponent is mendacity. “The situation of T38 has not been modified” is a canopy up, and the duvet up is all the time worse than the crime. The rationale an apparently minor relabelling wants a canopy up goes again to February 2022. Christian Egal and CWF Ltd legal professionals have by no means disputed the next account, despatched to them in blogs and in authorized letters to which they’ve replied.
T38 had initially been between T37 and T39 in a 42-turbine structure whose whole energy was 42 occasions 7.2 MW, placing the massive “3” in “302 MW”. Late within the day on the CEP design assembly on 21 February 2025, someone seen that T38 was on the embarrassing clean space of the Peat Depth map, a probing failure that had been ignored since February 2022. T38 was deleted from the structure however with out renaming T42, and the facility drooped to a feeble 295 MW. Maps with T42 had been drawn in good religion by Pure Energy and loaded by CWF Ltd to the Paperwork part of their new CEP web site.
A fortnight earlier than the 29 April launch, the printers of the Session Brochure seen the T42 mistake. New maps had been made with T38 standing the place T42 had been and the shiny brochure went to press with the proper maps. Phew!
With hallmark incompetence, no person at CEP thought to load the proper maps onto the web site, and on Launch Day all of the maps had been nonetheless mistaken. Once I rang Tom Andrews, I additionally instructed him the Peat Depth map had a scale hole. It was too late for the shiny brochure to be pulped, so the hole was corrected with a hand-inserted sticker.
I solely have a screenshot of the Launch Day Peat Depth Map as a result of I didn’t count on all of them to be wiped by 10:30, and I’m sorry it’s a bit fuzzy. T42 is simply east of the center reservoir dam and T38 is lacking on the white bit between T37 and T39 the place the probing failed in February 2022. This 29 April model doesn’t have the scale-gap correction that went on the sticker. After 10:30 on 1 Might 2025 this seems within the area under the important thing.
Within the disaster assembly between 9.06 and 10:30, Undertaking Director Christian ‘The Eagle’ Egal and Govt Chairman Christopher ‘440 Kelvin Volts’ Wilson will need to have felt the matter wanted some spin, which is why they authorised the implausible assertion: “The place of T38 has not been modified.” Nothing to see right here!
Readers who really feel it’s time to forgive and overlook Christopher Wilson’s declare on his earlier web site that the Nationwide Grid runs at “440 Kelvin Volts” could rethink once we come to the staggering ‘rhododendron and Himalayan balsam’ part of the Scoping Report. There isn’t any escape for Christopher Wilson from his firm’s incompetence. He has been on a darkish moorland freeway, cool wind in his hair and resides it up on the Lodge Calderdale.
On the Trawden public session, I requested Donald Mackay, the lead CWF Ltd advisor, about T38 and he stated, “T38 was on the clean little bit of the peat survey, so we moved it.”
Consultants are self-employed mercenaries. Their major loyalty is to their very own firms, not the undertaking. They won’t lie or develop into equipment to an implausible cowl up, as a result of they commerce on their crystal-clear reputations, and Donald ‘Clear’ Mackay has the bottom refractive index within the trade. At CEP awaydays his karaoke quantity is, ‘Now, I’m the king of the generators, O, the wind farm VIP’. The opposite consultants are in awe of him. I’m sure he didn’t see this unprofessional Scoping Report earlier than Christian Egal despatched it to the Secretary of State. Donald Mackay will survive the wreck of the CEP Scoping Report, like Ishmael in Moby Dick.
“And I solely am escaped alone to inform thee.”
How did ST of Logika draw a map with the phantom T42 and publish it within the closing chapter of the CEP Scoping Report, and why did Christian Egal ship it to the Secretary of State?
Chapter 13 on Noise and Vibration offers us the clue. The Logika acoustics skilled (we’ll meet him later: he’s a scream) has modelled the CEP structure noise. I’m sorry if he’s a she. There’s a pomposity that appears stereotypically male, however on the subject of laying it on thick, we should all the time reckon with the Queen of Sheba.
The software program credited for drawing the decibel contours on map 13-1 is windPRO. I’ve registered with windPRO and brought a few of their tutorials, so I do know this: if you wish to make maps of Noise or Shadow Flicker or Cumulative Generators, you click on on the Format Library drop-down, and all of your layouts are there. Sadly, CWF Ltd have three layouts within the library, all with file names starting Calderdale … and we all know what can occur with lengthy file names.
One of many Calderdale layouts is CEP, with 41 generators labelled from T1 to T41; one is the 65-turbine structure of CWF, described to me by Donald ‘Clear’ Mackay as “worse than ineffective”; and one has no T38 and a phantom T42 as a substitute. Christian Egal, quickly turning into the Inspector Clouseau of renewables, must put a stake by means of T42.
Skylar T solely made three structure maps within the Scoping Report and was allowed to make use of all three layouts. Skylar’s checker MT (let it not be mum!), and the senior administration at Logika who signed off the Scoping Report, didn’t discover, and Christian Egal waved them by means of to the Secretary of State.
It’s acceptable that the phantom turbine T42 has come again to hang-out Christian Egal within the part on Shadow Flicker.
In 2023, CWF Ltd spent greater than £750,000 on survey charges and consultancy. The identical gadgets in 2024 are about £1.3 million. I reckon the 2023 Scoping Report for Calderdale Council by Pure Energy will need to have price £500,000 for its 140 pages.
The 2023 report was solely going to Calderdale Council, however the 2025 one is for the Planning Inspectorate and the Secretary of State, so it needed to be the cat’s pyjamas. Logika could have had CWF Ltd over a barrel given the brief deadline following the unexplained departure of Pure Energy, and CWF Ltd haven’t any top-of-the-food-chain developer (Vattenfall, SSE, EDF) within the background who would deliver Logika the potential for extra work. I reckon the 2025 Scoping Report price CWF Ltd greater than one million kilos, and although you won’t count on the Logika Platinum Service for a mere seven figures, you count on all of the maps to be proper, even if you’re a bambiraptor in a world of tyrannosaurs.
As a substitute, for six briefcases filled with the investor’s fivers, Christian Egal and Christopher Wilson obtained the one map they by no means needed to see once more, whose existence they’d lined up on a popup – “The place of T38 has not been modified” and Logika printed this map proper on the finish so it was the very last thing the Secretary of State noticed earlier than he turned out the sunshine after 577 pages.
Tempting destiny, by 30 August 2025 someone at CWF Ltd had taken down that nasty popup about T38 and T42. Nothing to see right here!
Mild reduction: the street numbering debacle
I’m moved by Skylar T, a cartographer working on the finish of days, ready for the Daleks to steal the job they love. The astonishing mess that Logika manufactured from the street numbers is in a lighter vein, even whether it is devastating to the standing of the Scoping Report, to Logika who wrote it and to Christian Egal who accepted it and despatched it to the Secretary of State. If you find yourself achieved with the nil-nil defensive competence of Vattenfall’s Glenmarkie Scoping Report, flip to Logika’s Chapter 12. Because the Stoke Metropolis supervisor Alan Durban famously stated, “If you need leisure, go and watch clowns”.
A lot of the CEP Scoping Report is cut-and-paste, however some appears to have been written specifically by the chatbot Marvin. No human who was remotely certified to write down Chapter 12 on Entry, Visitors and Transport may make all these errors unaided. To guard myself from Logika’s libel legal professionals, after I say, “This bit appears like Marvin”, I all the time imply that it may even have been achieved by a somebody referred to as Ford Prefect who doesn’t know that the M4 goes to Cardiff as a result of he comes from Betelgeuse and never from Guildford in any case.
12.4.2
Bullet level 2. “A6068 between the M56 and Colne”.
The A6068 doesn’t be a part of the M56. For “M56” learn M65.
Bullet level 6. “A6063 between Hebden Bridge and Cross Roads.”
For “A6063” learn A6033. The A6063 is a hyperlink street in Preston.
Bullet level 7. “A464 between Todmorden and Mytholmroyd.”
For “A464” learn A646. Any human certified to write down or examine a chapter on Entry and Transport would know that the “A464” have to be within the M4 hall from London to South Wales. That is prima facie Marvin.
12.4.5
Bullet level 2. “A6068 between the M56 and Cowling; Depend websites 28783 (Colne)”
For “M56” learn Colne. Right here “M56” can’t be learn as “M65” as a result of the M65 site visitors rely is within the earlier bullet level. Double factors to Marvin.
12.4.8
“Onsite PRoW current on the A6063”.
For “A6063” learn A6033 or A6068, or each. A PRoW is a public proper of approach, and since neither A6063, A6033 nor A6068 is an onsite street, a PRoW “current” on these roads can’t be onsite. The A6063 is a PRoW, so it might be “current” on itself, but it surely nonetheless would nonetheless not be “onsite”, even when wasn’t in Preston. This mess is both Marvin or Ford Prefect. Solely Logika can inform the Secretary of State.
12.4.11
“The A6068 is operated by Lancashire County Council and is especially a two lane distributor street. It connects the M56 to West Yorkshire and passes by means of the city of Colne.”
For “M56” learn M65. For “West Yorkshire” learn North Yorkshire. On the face of it, pure Marvin, who’s flaunting his data of the historic Yorkshire ridings, misplaced in 1974. The difficulty with a mind the scale of a planet is that you may know an excessive amount of.
12.4.16
“The A464 gives an east-west connection between Lancashire and West Yorkshire, connecting Burnley to Halifax.”
For “A464” learn A646. For “east-west” learn west-east. Marvin appears to have been confused by the “West” in “West Yorkshire”.
12.6.6
Bullet level 6: “Customers of the A6063 between Hebden Bridge and Cross Roads.”
For “A6063” learn A6033. The A6063 runs previous the tram depot in Preston.
Bullet level 9: “Residents dwelling alongside the A6068 between the M56 and Cowling”.
For “M56” learn M65.
Bullet level 10: “Residents dwelling alongside the A644 between Todmorden and Mytholmroyd.”
For “A644” learn A646. That is Marvin’s third model of A646. Or was it Ford Prefect? I have to be cautious as a result of suggesting that Logika used Marvin to write down a Scoping Report for a Nationally Important Infrastructure Undertaking is likely to be a libel if it turned out to be Ford Prefect all alongside, as a result of they have to not use Marvin with out telling the Inspectorate on submission.
12.7.1
Bullet level 6: For “A6063”, learn A6033.
Bullet level 7: For “A6063”, learn A6033.
Bullet level 8: For “A6063”, learn A6033.
A closing flourish from Marvin, no?
There may be way more street error to come back, which human readers will establish simply sufficient as soon as they’ve corrected at the least fifteen street numbers. 1000’s of tons of ‘bulk supplies’ evaporate between the A629 and the A6033 for instance, however Ford Prefect may be forgiven for dropping all that mixture within the misnumbered maze.
The deep issues in Chapter 12 are to do with the peat slide danger on Crow Hill. We will begin on that on the finish of this weblog and set to work correctly in a fortnight.
Ch 7: Plagiarised analysis
Scoping Report 7.4.20 Nevertheless, non-native and invasive species had been recorded, together with Himalayan balsam at six survey places (5 on the River Kelvin and one on the Water of Feugh). Rhododendron was additionally recorded at two places alongside the Black Dean. Synthetic reinforcement of the watercourses was recorded at 20 places and included use of brick/stone, gabions and culverting.
The River Kelvin runs by means of Glasgow, previous the college the place Baron Kelvin was Professor of Pure Philosophy for 53 years. The Water of Feugh is the biggest tributary of the Dee in Aberdeenshire.
Black Dean has not been discovered. The late Dean Black was a grime rapper whose document label was Dank of England. You by no means know with Marvin. He’s been skilled on the entire web. Rivers, rappers, he is aware of every part. All the suitable notes however not essentially in the suitable order.
There are not any gabions on the watercourses of Walshaw Moor and brick is rarely utilized in culverting as a result of the moor is solely manufactured from a well-known constructing stone which they use as a substitute. Robust in a block: weak as mixture.
Marvin has stolen this analysis from the College of Stirling, and the scientists there have been knowledgeable to allow them to take acceptable motion to guard their reputations. This nonsense is both human scientific fraud or Marvin: Logika should select their poison. I choose Marvin and await my letter from the Logika legal professionals in the event that they wish to declare {that a} human wrote that stuff in regards to the River Kelvin. Marvin thought the Scoping Report was a bit skinny on invasive vegetation and he is aware of extra about rhododendrons than Charlie Dimmock has forgotten. There may be extra of this lurking within the Scoping Report, however with simply 29 days allotted by the Planning Inspectorate, and dealing with a doable SLAPP, we are able to solely be anticipated to debate essentially the most placing examples of Marvin’s incendiary helpfulness.
In Dune, humanity destroyed all of the considering machines within the “Butlerian jihad”, however Douglas Adams obtained the true future proper in Hitchhiker’s: our plastic buddies will drive us to distraction with their cheerful incompetence. “Glad to be of service!”
The EIA that’s constructed on this Scoping Report may have a thousand statements which might be susceptible to Marvin making issues as much as preserve the consumer pleased, so this can be a very significant issue that have to be nipped within the bud by the Planning Inspectorate. They’ve full powers to require CWF Ltd. and Logika to establish all of Marvin’s work within the Scoping Report.
And out of the blue, Kelvin returns to mock Christopher Wilson! On the incompetent Lodge Calderdale, they’re programmed to obtain: Christopher ‘440 Kelvin Volts’ Wilson can try any time he likes, however he can by no means depart.
I don’t know why a good developer would select Logika to write down their Scoping Report after this efficiency. Maybe the remainder of the Scoping Report is so excellent that mistaken maps, scientific fraud, a bumptious robotic, and street numbering bingo are forgotten amid the Bafta-nominated prose and razor-sharp cut-and-paste. Maybe Logika will develop into consultants of final resort for one-off prospects like Christopher ‘440 Kelvin Volts’ Wilson.
There’s a taverna in Corfu whose proprietor has a menu for folks he thinks are by no means coming again, “I make you the particular lobster linguine.” It arrives with chewy limpets in recycled lobster shells, and then you definitely get the invoice for €1000. A clip-joint, however nonetheless cheaper than the Logika Scoping Report.
Mild reduction: Marvin can spell
The spelling within the Scoping Report is great. There are about 150,000 phrases and 149,965 of them are right, an accuracy price of 99.98%.
As Christian Egal says within the Session Brochure: “Given the Website’s heritage worth, we’re dedicated to respecting the native historic and cultural options all through the planning and improvement course of.” It’s a noble intention and nobly expressed. It’s unlucky that actually the one phrase Marvin can not spell is “Brontë”, which he will get mistaken thirty-five occasions.
Ch 13: Return of the “worse than ineffective” structure
Maps 13-1 and 13-2 are adjoining within the Scoping Report, had been each drawn by ‘ST’ and checked by ‘MT’ and each revised on 29 August 2025. The primary exhibits the structure of seven.2 MW generators printed within the Non-statutory Session. It’s supposed to point out noise contours.
Map 13-2 exhibits the cumulative noise impact of the varied wind farms constructed close by. From the drop-down menu of layouts, this time Skylar T chooses the 65-turbine Calderdale Wind Farm described by Donald Mackay as “worse than ineffective”.
Why was Skylar, plainly an absolute newbie with the software program, allowed to make the maps within the Scoping Report with out the work being checked by senior administration at Logika? Why did Undertaking Director Christian Egal not examine all of the maps earlier than he despatched three completely different variations of his personal structure to the Secretary of State?
The writer of Chapter 13 Noise and Vibration has grown smooth and pompous within the consultancy sport; “17 Years Principal Advisor and full member of the Institute of Acoustics and has over 17 years of expertise in enterprise noise assessments for wind farm developments.” Principal Consultants at Logika are a lot too grand to examine the adjoining maps on which their evaluation relies. The second this Principal Advisor is just not cut-and-pasting different folks’s analysis he comes unstuck.
Contemplate the part on Amplitude Modulation within the Scoping Report, helpfully outlined by our Principal Advisor.
13.5.12 “In its easiest type, Amplitude Modulation (AM), by definition, is the common variation in noise stage of a given noise supply. This variation (the modulation) happens at a particular frequency, which, within the case of wind generators, is outlined by the rotational pace of the blades, i.e. it happens on the price at which the blades cross a set level (e.g. the tower), often known as Blade Passing Frequency.”
What he needs is for AM to be scoped out of the Environmental Impression Evaluation. He has the identical boilerplate research that you’ll discover in Vattenfall’s Glenmarkie, and they’re duly cut-and-pasted into place. He concludes:
13.5.21 “At time of writing there isn’t any agreed methodology which can be utilized to foretell the prevalence of AM or an agreed methodology which can be utilized to find out whether or not the consequences of AM, ought to it happen, are prone to be important. Settlement is sought that amplitude modulation must be scoped out of EIA.”
No person raised AM within the response to the 2023 Scoping Report. Our Principal Advisor is beginning a combat with himself on the dreaded AM, maybe to bolster his significance with low cost boilerplate. What he hasn’t seen is the stonking nice amplitude modulator sitting in the course of the wind farm whose noise ranges he has simply modelled in Determine 13-1.
13.3.5 […] “Preliminary desktop noise modelling was undertaken utilizing EMD windPRO software290. An preliminary indicative wind turbine structure based mostly on the structure offered on the non-statutory session was enter into the software program and, utilizing noise information for a candidate turbine consultant of the kind that might be put in on the positioning (observe 291), a noise contour plot was produced (proven on Determine 13-1)”.
Be aware 291 tells us that the candidate turbine used for predictions is the Vestas V162 7.2MW with a 119 m hub and 200 m tip, the very mannequin I picked from lots of a few months in the past once we first analysed the aerodynamics. The 2 assumptions utilized by the Principal Advisor to create his noise mannequin give a grossly overcrowded wind farm.
Within the UK, the minimal spacing in a wind farm is 3 rotor diameters throughout the prevailing wind, and 5 rotor diameters downwind. This prevents turbulence thrown off by the blade suggestions from damaging a neighbour and permits the turbulent slow-moving wake behind the turbine to fill considerably earlier than the following turbine. UK onshore wind farms are crowded by worldwide norms, the place a 6-10 RD spacing is common downwind. Actual UK wind farms are correctly spaced. Right here for instance are the three proven within the Principal Advisor’s Map 13-2 map.
When the Principal Advisor’s chosen structure is analysed on the identical footprints, the outcome has big overlaps.
No actual wind farm within the UK appears like this, although extra will if the Planning Inspectorate take their eye off the ball, as a result of builders and producers have an incentive to overcrowd at our expense. The excellent news is that Sir Keir Starmer has made an announcement on wind farm developer shenanigans. Overcrowding can inflate curtailment funds, about which Prime Minister Starmer has stated “It’s an issue that wasn’t fastened over the past 14 years, however an issue that we’re decided to repair as we go ahead.” Because it occurs, CWF Ltd. proposed a correctly-spaced wind farm beneath the Conservatives and a grossly overcrowded one beneath Labour.
After all, if the Planning Inspectorate are up to the mark, the CEP structure lastly proposed can’t be as overcrowded because the one modelled for noise, however we’re right here to appraise this Principal Advisor in his personal phrases.
His noise mannequin in 13-1 makes use of a distance weighted common of the printed noise depth of the Vestas 162 7.2 MW generators to calculate the noise at every level. Factors of equal noise are joined with colored contours like ’50 dB’.
AM noise is just not this common noise. It happens at specific frequencies, and proper in the course of his mannequin is an unlimited Amplitude Modulator, the grossly overcrowded generators of the T21-T24 cluster. This Amplitude Modulator is subsequent to the Pennine Manner, and we’re instructed in 12.4.19 that “PRoW customers inside the web site shall be thought-about as extremely delicate receptors.”
These 4 generators may have related blade passing frequencies and since they’re so shut collectively the noise is not going to decay a lot between them. Should you make two notes of comparable frequency and amplitude and play them collectively you get the inevitable amplitude modulation referred to as acoustic beats, which piano tuners use to find out if two strings have an identical pitch. It seems like this, and appears just like the graph under on an oscilloscope, a 16 Hz sine wave (4 octaves under center C) added to an 18 Hz one.
The ensuing sound wave displays the amplitude modulation referred to as acoustic beats. The envelope of the wave type may be calculated utilizing a normal id:
sin 2x + sin 2y ≡ 2 sin (x + y) cos (x – y).
The 2 waves with frequency 18 Hz and 16 Hz mix to provide a wave type whose pitch shall be 17 Hz however whose amplitude envelope ±2cos(x –y) may have two pulses of noise each second. The piano tuner is aware of the strings have the identical pitch when no AM happens when they’re performed collectively.
If the generators are additional aside, then the amplitudes of interfering waves shall be lowered. Within the diagram under we present sum of 16 Hz and 18 Hz waves however with completely different amplitudes. There’ll nonetheless be AM, however much less excessive.
The true wind farms adduced as proof within the Scoping Report are correctly spaced and so don’t generate a lot AM. The wind farm modelled by the Principal Advisor is grossly overcrowded, so it would inevitably produce AM noise, particularly from the T21-T24 cluster previous which the “extremely delicate receptors” (12.4.19) on the Pennine Manner shall be strolling. “Whap! Whap! Whap! Whap!” The remedy for AM noise is correct spacing.
The abuse of science on this argument on AM that no person requested for is scandalous. The Principal Advisor raises AM noise. He makes use of assumptions to mannequin common noise that contain a grossly overcrowded wind farm. His windPRO mannequin can not discover AM noise within the structure as a result of it averages out over the entire spectrum. He adduces many research on AM noise which might be based mostly on present wind farms that are correctly spaced and makes use of them as proof to scope out AM noise from his personal grossly overcrowded CEP, the place AM is inevitable.
He says “At time of writing there isn’t any agreed methodology which can be utilized to foretell the prevalence of AM” when the very mannequin he has created would produce predictable AM noise from 4 200-metre-high generators constructed a lot too shut collectively.
Our society relies on mathematical modelling, however the British individuals are turning into hostile to it. The scandalous conduct of Chapter 13 is just not excused by the disclaimer on the finish of it.
Logika started as a noise consultancy. The Principal Advisor is prone to be senior. If that is the case, he is without doubt one of the individuals who ought to have checked the Scoping Report earlier than it was given to Christian Egal at CWF Ltd, however he didn’t even examine his personal maps.
Ch 8: All of the hydrology maps omit the Greave Clough sluice and tunnel
The entire of CEP is liable to trigger a serious flood within the Calder valley, as a result of it’s grossly overcrowded and plenty of generators at the moment are perching on the steep edges in a useless try to get them off the deepest peat and away from one another. The tracks to the perched generators will speed up storm runoff in direction of Hebden Bridge.
The one space the Scoping Report explicitly names for flood danger is in 4.3.11: “A big space liable to floor water flooding, on the western aspect of the Turbine Space, is the Waterfall Syke and Cross Dike.” This sentence was in all probability written by Marvin as a result of the 2 linear options Cross Dike and Waterfall Syke don’t make an ‘space’. What Marvin means is “the massive space round Waterfall Skye and Cross Dike.”
That is the realm west of Greave Clough the place T38 was going to be till they moved it, and the place the place WTRG have been concentrating their fieldwork. There may be additionally a big space right here the place CWF Ltd don’t know what the peat is like as a result of they didn’t full the survey in February 2022 and by no means went again. The earlier Scoping Report in 2023 confirmed the reality in regards to the peat survey within the sincere map by Pure Energy.
The crosses are the place CWF Ltd declare to have had the peat probed. The map is colored between the crosses by an algorithm. The probing was not completed, and the algorithm guesses the color with reducing accuracy till it admits defeat and leaves white. Inside the skinny pink boundary with out crosses, CWF Ltd do not know in regards to the peat depths and haven’t identified since February 2022. The newest model of this Peat Depth Map, printed on the CEP web site, doesn’t have the sincere Pure Energy crosses that reveal the extent of a failure to probe the peat that now extends for nearly 4 years.
This can be a ineffective map for occupied with flooding as a result of it hasn’t obtained the Nationwide Grid on it, and has no contours, however a lot worse, it hasn’t obtained the Greave Clough sluice and tunnel both. Skylar T is to not blame for any of that.
That is the sluice on a quiet day, with the tunnel on the suitable. However …
… in occasions of storm, the gently sloping tunnel is overwhelmed, the sluice fills and the torrent goes over the dam, down a spillway constructed for the aim and straight to Hebden Bridge and the Calder valley.
Storm movement in Greave Clough is just not the identical as regular movement, however you’d by no means know that from the Scoping Report Hydrology maps 8-1, 8-2, 8-3. The absent sluice and tunnel are north of the bump on the positioning boundary, simply above the “h” in “Greave Clough”.
On a standard day the water is within the tunnel to Widdop Reservoir. The tunnel surfaces briefly at Pig Gap Dike after which goes deep beneath the charismatic Scout Ridge (right here referred to as Slack Stones) to a brief floor conduit that enters Widdop Reservoir simply above the dam.
A lot of CWF Ltd.’s incompetence, which has been spiralling since February 2022, comes collectively within the map above. We should use the discontinued hydrology map made by Pure Energy as a result of the Logika one is so ineffective. CWF Ltd. don’t know there’s a sluice and a tunnel in Greave Clough; they failed to complete the peat survey between February 2022 and August 2025; they cancelled T38 however left T42 in (21 February 2025); they printed seven mistaken maps with a T42 on every (29 April 2025); they printed seven maps with T38 the place T42 had been (10:30, 1 Might 2025); they printed a canopy up in the course of the Non-statutory Session (1 Might-10 June 2025) claiming that T38 had all the time been the place T42 was; they took down the popup admission of error and the cover-up (late August 2025) as a result of they didn’t need the Secretary of State to see it; and that was simply in time for the printing of the mistaken T42 map once more in 18-1 of the Scoping Report (1 September 2025) as a result of ST at Logika was an beginner at utilizing windPRO and no person checked.
All that is within the very space of Cross Dike and Waterfall Clough the place the flood danger to the Calder valley has been recognized and named by CWF Ltd.; all that is on an 11% slope (flat as a pancake in 8-1) the place CWF Ltd intend deep lower tracks by means of the heavy peat right down to boulder clay, which should be trenched, stuffed with quarry waste, topped with imported granite, and double ditched. These tracks will permit CWF Ltd. to tow the 80-metre turbine blades as much as T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7 and T37; and these double-ditched French drains will dry out the peat on Area of the Mosses for lots of of metres in all instructions, accelerating erosion in an space the place taxpayers have been working to sluggish the movement and restore the peat by blocking the drains. In a storm these new drains and tracks will speed up the acknowledged floor flooding round Cross Dike and Waterfall Syke that’s gathered within the Greave Clough funnel and ship it to the sluice, which the torrent will bounce, and surge on to Hebden Bridge, direct.
These are the errors which might be simple to identify and clarify. The deeper errors are more durable to see and take longer to elucidate, however Stronger Collectively calmly achieve this of their response to the CEP Scoping Report.
Crow Hill
Subsequent time we’ll take a look at what the Scoping Report has to say in regards to the supply of all of the turbine parts throughout Crow Hill. Marvin’s account of the infamous soil mechanics on Crow Hill is just not intensive. It consists solely of the second sentence of 8.3.29.
8.3.29 “A big proportion of the Cable Hall Search Areas and jap Website Entry Search Areas haven’t any superficial deposits and the place current, lie inside peat deposits. The western Website Entry Search Space is underlain by superficial deposits of Glacial Until the place current.”
That that is robotic slop shall be clear to readers, and to the Logika libel legal professionals. Somewhat than giving the messenger a SLAPP they’d be higher engaged serving to their consumer discover all the opposite stuff Marvin wrote within the Scoping Report and confessing it to the Planning Inspectorate.
The one different point out of Crow Hill is in 8.3.26, which isn’t written by Marvin as a result of it has “Brontë” proper.
8.3.26 “To the north and out of doors of the Turbine Space, there are two recorded peat landslides, considered one of which is named the Crow Hill lavatory burst (Ross, 2020), described by the Rev. Patrick Brontë. LiDAR information signifies no equal options inside the proposed turbine space.”
The reference (Ross, 2020) which Logika hope will clarify the peat slide danger on their turbine entry route is Charlotte Brontë on the Anthropocene a frightening and sensible post-doctoral examination of patriarchal exploitation in Shirley and Villette by Shawna Ross, which I’ve learn and loved. Telling soil engineers to learn Charlotte Brontë on the Anthropocene is like recommending Woman Chatterley’s Lover to your gamekeeper.
No person human at Logika has learn Ross 2020, which says on web page 61, “Wind farm erection causes peat bursts and slides by growing new shear planes”. The quirky mind of Christian Egal signifies that he alone at CWF Ltd might need learn Ross 2020; it’s within the custom of the French semiologist Roland Barthes. The issue for his employer is that Christian Egal hasn’t learn the Scoping Report. Actually, the one entities who’ve learn each phrase of Ross, 2020 and the CEP Scoping Report are me and Marvin.
If Mark Avery and I haven’t had a SLAPP from Logika’s legal professionals, we will meet once more in a fortnight to get on with Crow Hill!
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That is the forty fifth in a collection of visitor blogs initially based mostly on the 65 wind generators which Richard Bannister deliberate to have erected on Walshaw Moor. Generators 5, 6, 6CEP, 8, 8CEP, 9, 11, 13, 14CEP, 14, 16, 17, 18CEP, 20CEP, 21, 21CEP, 25, 25CEP, 27, 29CEP, 31, 32, 33, 33CEP, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 42, 42CEP, 43, 44, 47, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58, 60, 62, 64 and 65 have already been described.
The builders have canned their unique 65 wind generators, fairly presumably in response to the general public humiliation of getting their so-called ‘plan’ publicly proven to be damaging, irrational and doubtless illegal. They’ve come again with a plan for 42 wind generators and the superb Nick MacKinnon and mates have regrouped and set off on a brand new tack too. The collection continues.
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