SIR – The T&A (October 19) carried interesting conflicting views on wind turbines.
Godfrey Bloom MEP says “good riddance” to the Chelker turbines and let’s hope of lots more. If such loss-makers he states them to be, why should the owners seek to replace them with others? Hardly commercial sense, surely?
Then a headline, ‘Farmers rush for a windmill deadline’. Again it hardly makes sense if not commercially viable. Then, ‘MP leads 77m turbine protests’ dealing with a turbine proposal near Queensbury.
Someone, somewhere will end up with egg on their faces but the economic case is unchallenged, the climatic case is unchallenged and grows stronger by the flood with only the visual intrusion aspect open to debate.
If electricity is needed, then surely generate it, the only lead time hindrance is planning, otherwise they are up in months.
John C Tempest, Six Days Only, Heaton
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