Answer to blowing in the wind
A RULING is due in the next few weeks on the proposed wind turbine at Lynn's Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Ecotricity appealed against West Norfolk Council’s decision to refuse the turbine and a planning inspector must now decide.
A hospital spokesman said if the plan gets the go-ahead, it will put the QEH at the forefront of the new NHS national Carbon Reduction Strategy.
The NHS currently produces more carbon emissions than any other public sector organisation in Europe and, in announcing the strategy last week, pledged to reduce the 2007 footprint by the figure of ten per cent by 2015.
The QEH received an award last year for reducing its carbon dioxide output by 387 tonnes.
With the wind turbine and a raft of other measures, the hospital aims to be classed as “zero carbon” by 2018.
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Weather for King's Lynn
Saturday 04 February 2012
Today
Sunny spells
Temperature: -2 C to 2 C
Wind Speed: 17 mph
Wind direction: South
Tomorrow
Light sleet showers
Temperature: -2 C to 2 C
Wind Speed: 7 mph
Wind direction: South west
