... a proposal to site a massive 254ft wind turbine right next to our tiny village. This is a peaceful rural area with abundant rare bird life, owls, resident bat populations and red squirrels.
This monstrosity will dominate the area and severely impact on our lives as well as the supposedly protected species mentioned above.
Don't be fooled by green arguments and alternative energy.
This particular turbine will cost around £1.25 million to build and will provide a nice income of £250,000 per annum to the developer/land owner guaranteed for 20 years.
This money is paid by the electricity generating industry who are obliged to give all turbine operators over 20p per kwh for energy provided to the grid (whether they want or need the electricity). This is around twice what I pay to
purchase electricity FROM THOSE SAME ELECTRICITY COMPANIES.
Of course this money comes from you and me via a surcharge on our electricity bill. So our electricity bills rise every time one of these turbines goes up. There are plans in the UK for another 30,000 of these things.
For every kwh produced by wind power there still has to be backup in the form of traditional power generation ie coal/gas or nuclear, because they can only produce electricity when the wind blows in a finite range. Anything over 50mph and they have to shutdown the wind turbines to prevent them bursting into flames or shattering.
There were 117 wind turbine fires last year alone.
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