EAST Lancashire campaigners for and against wind farms are to go head-to-head on a BBC television show.

Cliviger parish councillor, David Morgan, is outspoken in his support of finding a greener way of providing electricity and believes the village's experience of having a wind power site on its doorstep has been largely positive.

In a new series called Bee In Your Bonnet, hosted by former Tory spin doctor and fleet street editor Amanda Platell, David takes on the people fighting to stop a proposed £50million, 26-turbine wind farm being built by United Utilities on Scout Moor, in Edenfield.

They were filmed at the foot of the Cliviger turbines for an episode of the series about campaigning, which is due to be screened on BBC2, tonight, at 7.30pm.

David, who is the vice chairman of the parish council, said: "I was asked to speak on behalf of the people of Cliviger about their experience of living near a wind farm after the parish council was approached to put someone forward.

"The Government has set targets for the electricity to firms - by 2010, 20 per cent of their output has to be from green, renewable sources or they will be capped."

He said: "I listened to the other campaigners' point of view, they are concerned about the noise and the look of the turbines, and I respect that.

"But I said that people living in and around Scout Moor are getting up and turning on lights everyday and we have to find some way to provide that electricity in a greener way.

"Some people don't want change and they don't want things like this to go on someone else's doorstep and not in their back yard.

"They want to put them out to sea but wherever you put them someone will be unhappy about it."

Last year Cliviger Parish Council chairman, Steven Smith, urged a public inquiry to say yes to a wind farm on land to the east of Clowbridge reservoir that has been opposed by Burnley Council. The result of the inquiry is not yet known.

In December, protesters against the wind farm at Scout Moor celebrated after Rossendale Council unanimously rejected United Utilities' plans. The Government is expected to call for a public inquiry into the proposals.