TOM Hawkes, writing from the comfortable distance of New Zealand, castigates those of us who oppose windfarms as
Luddites. (Bolton Evening News, September 16).
Not so. You only need to stand at Crown Point, just outside Burnley, to see how a badly placed windfarm can disfigure an otherwise pleasant landscape. Other examples, notably Lambrigg near Tebay, are even worse.
I agree with him when he says nuclear power is not the answer, and that we need renewable energy urgently. But if a fraction of the effort put into the development of wind power had been put instead into wave power, or for that matter into solar cell development, local combined heat and power schemes etc, etc, we could have the renewable energy without the disfigured landscapes. The great advantage wave has over wind is that there is never a day on which the waves do not roll.
Peter Johnston,
Kendal Road
Bolton
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