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JOHN ROSS
AT LEAST 34 people have been killed in incidents involving wind farms, according to a new report.
Campaigners have sent details of 273 accidents worldwide to the Department of Trade and Industry and the Health and Safety Executive.
They include lightning strikes, fires, collisions and incidents where ice is hurled from turbine blades.
The list has been compiled by the Caithness Windfarms Information Forum as part of the consultation on the government's Energy Review.
The report states: "Despite the industry always presenting this technology as safe, fatalities are occurring. In some cases escalating, health and safety issues are indeed not being fully addressed or reported."
The incidents date from 1975 to the end of last year.
Seventeen incidents in the
The report also highlights concerns about fires in turbines, which are often built near to forests and can be difficult to fight due to their height and remote location.
"Recent turbine fires have demonstrated that current firefighting methods cannot begin to cope with fires at the top of turbines at 80-100 metres."
The group's list of fatalities includes 28 among wind industry workers and six members of the public.
Richard Ford, head of grid and technical affairs at the British Wind Energy
Association, said: "The wind industry has a good safety record in the
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