The Most Wuthering Protest Against Calderdale Windfarm's Project Ever

The Sunday Times reports how the Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever event at Penistone Hill is becoming more of a demonstration against the Calderdale Windfarm extinction-level for Bronté country project:

‘Mass wuther’ protest as giant wind farm threatens Brontë moors

Out on the wily, windy moors around Top Withens in Yorkshire, hundreds of Kate Bush enthusiasts are gathering in a bid to stop 40 turbines despoiling the landscape (...)

However, this year it is not just a celebration of Brontë and Bush but also a mass protest against plans by a Saudi-backed company to put 41 wind turbines on the moors surrounding Top Withens, the ruined farmhouse reputed to be the inspiration for Wuthering Heights itself.-

Clare Shaw, a co-organiser of the event, said: “We thought this was a brilliant opportunity to tap into the strength of feeling about these plans. Some of these turbines will be very close to Top Withens and people don’t realise what the impact will be.

“It’s all a trick of language, calling it a wind farm. This is going to be a massive industrial complex built on protected peat land. Can you imagine a more novel way to send the message that this isn’t wanted than hundreds of people dancing to Wuthering Heights? (...)

Michael Stewart, a Brontë expert, said it was not a case of local people being against green policies.

He said: “There is nothing sustainable about this project. Its construction will be an environmental disaster. The aggregate required to build the roads needed to transport the turbines, and to construct the vast foundations for them, cannot be quarried locally. The nearest suitable aggregate is 90 miles away.

“It is estimated over 20,000 trucks would be needed to transport it, creating two years of constant traffic. The construction of the wind farm will create extensive flooding in the Calder Valley that will cause millions of pounds worth of damage. (David Barnett)

Powys County Times mentions the infamous letter by Robert Southey to Charlotte Brontë:

In 1820 he was Poet Laureate and visited Llangedwyn Hall, one of the many homes of his friend Charles Williams Wynn. 

His legacy was somewhat tarnished when he wrote to 20 year-old Charlotte Brontë in 1837 and wrote the words: "Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be." (Gavin Grosvenor)

Granma (Cuba) discusses the novel Nada by Carmen Laforet:

Con esta historia su autora ganó la primera convocatoria del prestigioso premio español Nadal para obras inéditas, y cautivó de inmediato a la crítica y al público lector. Desde entonces no ha dejado de imprimirse, y se ha llegado a comparar –quizá por lo subyugante, por la atmósfera opresiva y hermosa– con ese monumento de las letras clásicas que es Cumbres Borrascosas. (Yeilén Delgado Calvo) (Translation)

The collection Novelas Eternas, which we have discussed before, is coming to Uruguay, according to El País. AnneBrontë.org, in stark contrast with the current British climate, posts about 'cold poems' by Emily and Anne. The third part of the Brussels Brontë Group's account of their trip to Haworth has been published.