Let them eat cake

As austerity bites, we are not only destroying our own countryside with wind turbines for no good purpose except to make some people rich, but we are giving aid to the poorer nations of the world, so that they can have wind turbines too. What madness!

Christopher Booker says:

"It might seem rather quixotic for a government that recently had to borrow £8.6 billion in a single month, in order to cover its ever-widening spending deficit, to then lash out £1.8 billion in foreign aid to build wind turbines in Mexico to supply Walmart with electricity, or to provide solar panels to some of the poorest countries in the world on condition that they don’t build the proper power stations they need to become richer.  "


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/9730469/The-polluters-the-EU-says-dont-have-to-pay.html

In Mexico, energy companies are opposed by the local population.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/31/mexico-wind-farms_n_2049097.html

"The largely indigenous residents of the Isthmus complain that the wind farms take control of their land, affect fish and livestock with their vibrations, chop up birds and pit residents against each other for the damage or royalty payments. They also claim they see few of the profits from such projects."

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Scottish Wind Farm Protest

Small turbines and planning permission

"WORK has started on a controversial wind turbine development near Chulmleigh before being given the go-ahead by council planners"

Cornwall and Devon are being flooded with applications for single turbines. They may not be so large, but they too are changing our countryside and affecting people's lives. As local residents know to their cost, when you have a number of single turbines in your area you are living in a wind farm, yet because of the number of single applications it is far harder to mobilise opposition against each individual one.

This article in the North Devon Gazette highlights a case where the applicants have not even waited for consent before starting work.

Read more here:

http://www.northdevongazette.co.uk/news/battle_lines_drawn_over_chulmleigh_turbine_1_1657409

The area around Mounticombe Farm is a particularly quiet and beautiful one, and loved by many who live in the area for its peace and tranquility.

Llanllwni Mountain Choir

Windmills used make us smile