FOE welcomes UK's first wind turbine factory; 'Swords into ploughshares' as military base becomes renewable energy plant.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-19 June 2001-FRIENDS OF THE EARTH: FOE welcomes UK's first wind turbine factory; 'Swords into ploughshares' as military base becomes renewable energy plant (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:19062001 Friends of the Earth today warmly welcomed the announcement by the Scottish Executive and Danish firm Vestas Wind Systems of the UK's first commercial scale wind turbine plant.

Opening next year with an initial 100 new jobs on the former Machrihanish NATO Air Base near Campbeltown on the Mull of Kintyre, the factory will manufacture wind turbines and towers for the rapidly expanding UK and Irish renewable energy markets. Mark Johnston, Energy Campaigner at Friends of the Earth said: "This is excellent news. Although the UK has the...