Continuing landscape desecration

WITH regard to the article (Yorkshire Post, March 15) on John Elsom’s campaign group against Fraisthorpe Wind Farm, I would like to make the point that there is a much wider issue regarding wind turbines around Bridlington and upon the Yorkshire Wolds,

This desecration of the East Riding landscape continues with much varied debate for and against by those sufficiently interested or concerned and those gaining pecuniary advantage over the British people.

It must be said that individual campaign groups are somewhat fragmented and unco-ordinated, each detracting from the others by gaining individual media space.

My concerns are for local people whose lives are to be blighted by turbines – many on fixed incomes – who will have to make serious choices between food and warmth while watching stationary turbines on a cold airless winter’s day.

From: Dave Haskell, Newchapel Road, Boncathm, Pembrokeshire.

I WONDER how the unfortunate communities who have, and are going to have, unwelcomed and inefficient wind farms imposed upon them reacted when Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat Energy Secretary, recently stated: “There are a lot of wind farms that are being put up to the benefit of local communities.”

Really? Well bless my soul!

This is truly ingenuous and Mr Davey is living in cloud cuckoo land if he believes in this twaddle – I do hope there weren’t any apoplectic fits due to this perfidious offering?

Mr Davey also has claimed that “wind subsidies would fall as wind technology became more efficient and could disappear in the coming years”. Well, how exactly will wind technology become more efficient when it is totally reliant on the wind? No wind, no power, it’s not rocket science after all – has the man no concept at all to this limited, useless and medieval technology?

Guardians of countryside

From: Stephen Cheetham, Salmon & Trout Association, West Yorkshire Branch, Aire Grove, Yeadon, Leeds.

IN reply to Ken Pickles (Yorkshire Post, March 14), we anglers class ourselves as guardians of the countryside and not just out for a good time.