Protest groups unite to fight wind farms
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| 08:08 UK time, Monday, 22 January 2007
A new group has been formed to oppose the growing use of wind turbines in Denbighshire. But I thought there was advantages to their use - so much so that I noticed you can buy your own turbine - £1,500 all in - in one well known DIY superstore.
Anyway, Hiraethog Alliance aren't happy about them and is made up of the Ramblers’ Association, two North Wales Branches of Council for the Protection of Rural Wales, People Against Corwen/Cerrig Turbines and Denbighshire Against Rural Turbines.
In Denbighshire, a public inquiry starts on March 26 into proposals for a wind farm development at Wern Ddu, Gwyddelwern, as Tegni Cymru Cyf Limited appealed against the decision of Denbighshire Council to refuse permission for five turbines at Wern Ddu.
An appeal has also been lodged against the authority regarding another four turbines at the same site, according to www.denbighshirefreepress.co.uk.
Do you reckon they're an eyesore or a valuable source of green energy?
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Ask yourself this question.Would you prefer to live next to a wind farm or a nuclear power station?
In answer to Fred Jones> Neither. As I watch the turbine being constructed at Braich Ddu in the middle of one of the most beautiful landscapes in Meirionydd, painted by Augustus John and JD Innes and loved by me for 20 years, I ask myself why the people who resisted Treweryn so vocally, meekly allow Westminster to fill North Wales with redundant and inefficient technology,urbanise what has been happily undisturbed countryside in order to buy false credentials in the international 'I'm greener than you' race. The most effective way to reduce emissions is to run a national campaign of domestic saving. Insulation, domestic turbines, solar heating,incentives for reduced domestic and industrial consumption and reduction of the use of electricity for advertising. If people are made aware of what they need to do in order to contibute and if they are given financial help to have energy efficient and properly insulated homes then they will respond in the same way as most people are willing to re-cycle. This government however after Kyoto needs desperately to be seen to be doing something and just goes for quick fixes. Its how they work in government.The people of North Wales must lump it and spend the next 25 years surrounded by a network of useless steel ghosts.
Phil Parker is so right! The government is performing a classic knee-jerk reaction. The construction of wind farms in Wales is using massive amounts of energy, huge swathes of carbon dioxide consuming forests are being laid waste in the process, communities are being driven to distraction by low frequency noise pollution, landscapes are being defiled whilst the actual contribution to the provision of power is negligible and alternative sources are not reduced as a result. It is all a total nonsense - the emperor's new clothes all over again!!