David Cameron has been hit by a major protest by Conservative MPs over the Government’s backing for wind farms, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose. A total of 101 Tory MPs have written to the Prime Minister demanding that the £400 million-a-year subsidies paid to the “inefficient” onshore wind turbine industry are “dramatically cut”. The backbenchers, joined by some MPs from other parties, have also called on Mr Cameron to tighten up planning laws so local people have a better chance . . .

Most of Chatsworth’s councillors will be ready to walk out over the wind turbine issue when Premier Dalton McGuinty gives his keynote speech at the upcoming Ontario Good Roads Association meeting in Toronto. Council passed a motion Wednesday supporting a resolution from Arran-Elderslie for the province to place a moratorium on all wind turbine construction until concerns about them are addressed. Arran-Elderslie’s motion was partly based on an Ontario Federation of Agriculture call for a one-year moratorium beginning Feb. 20. . . .

ANTRIM — The company looking to build a wind farm near Tuttle Hill has submitted its application to state regulators. Antrim Wind Energy, a subsidiary of Portsmouth-based Eolian Renewable Energy, filed its application for the 30-megawatt-producing facility earlier this week. The application goes to the state’s Site Evaluation Committee, which is made up of members from various state agencies and will decide if the project can move forward. That committee takes jurisdiction of projects 30 megawatts or more and can . . .

The firm behind controversial plans for a windfarm in the Howe of Fife has apologised to local people amid confusion about the level of financial benefits the community would receive should the plans go ahead. West Coast Energy has scaled down its application for a windfarm at Clatto Hill in Devon Wood and is now seeking permission to erect five turbines at a height of 115m each instead of the seven 121m turbines that were originally proposed. That means that . . .

People who do not want to see wind turbines line the south shore of Prince Edward County made up the vast majority of the packed house attending MPP Todd Smith’s Town Hall meeting Thursday night at St. Andrew’s Church in Picton. More than 250 people filled the chairs and the audience spilled into the foyer, the balcony and sat on the edge of the stage to hear speakers and the public have their say. County organizations opposed to turbines here . . .

Villagers fighting to stop a wind turbine going up near their homes have launched a poster campaign. Campaigners in Adderley, near Market Drayton, claim the plans for a 55kw turbine, which would be 150ft tall to the blade tip, on land at Bawhill Farm would be an eyesore and could see house prices tumble. Campaigner Paul Shepley said residents were concerned at the impact the turbine could have because of its proximity to homes. The farmer behind the plans, Stephen . . .

Federal officials designated a large swath of ocean about 14 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard yesterday as the potential site for a massive wind farmthat would dwarf Cape Wind, the long-stalled project that is planned for Nantucket Sound. After two years of meetings with local and state officials, environmental groups, and others, including local tribes, officials at the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said they are launching an environmental assessment of about 1,300 square miles that could give rise . . .

A call has been made for an immediate moratorium on windfarms in the Ochil hills due to the ”cavalier, duplicitous and philistine” approach of major power firms towards the area. With the prospect of another 18 turbines before Perth and Kinross Council planners, Councillor Mike Barnacle has made an impassioned plea for a halt to the ”industrialisation” of the hills. His call comes as energy firm Wind Prospect tries to enlarge its Burnfoot windfarm, near two others which were passed . . .

The [Cape Cod Commission] is faced with weighing renewable-energy ideals and goals as espoused by the Patrick administration and wind-farm planning that evolved in Buzzards Bay against the perceived need for green power; while neighborhood opposition pivots on the potential for lost property values and vista blight.

COLEBROOK — A citizens’ group appeal of two mini-wind farms in town is moving ahead in court. A New Britain Superior Court judge upheld the legality of FairwindCT’s appeal this week, accord­ing to the group’s lawyer, Nicholas Harding of Hartford. Judge Henry S. Cohn opened a hearing on the case Monday. The hearing is an opportunity for the judge to ask questions and clarify information he has from the parties involved, Harding said. FairwindCT is opposed to the development of . . .