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Growing opposition to turbines
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Wind turbines are as well as, not instead of the power stations
The wind industry has been rumbled. The proposition that wind farms produce clean, green energy at low cost is no longer credible. The drive to install thousands of turbines across the whole of the UK, thus destroying our countryside is not acceptable. The increases in our electricity bills needed to pay the lavish subsidies and make wind farm developers rich at our expense is supreme financial folly.
Fortunately the media have woken up to the scam and there is almost daily coverage of the issues in the national press.
It is becoming commonplace for hundreds or even thousands of people to turn up to meeting about opposition to wind farms. Keep up the pressure, the Government will eventually get the message, enrgy policy which drives up peoples fuel bills could become Camerons “Poll Tax” issue.
Fully illustrated with a wide gravel road winding over a hill top between rows of turbines - is this the shape to come for all of our upland areas - and lowland for that matter.
Its not just thousands of wind turbines that threaten the countryside, there will also be hundreds of miles of extra pylons. This homeowner was given a choice, this side of your home or that side. Such a choice being described as consultation.
All of this is being picked up by the serious journals. The New Statesman see the wind farm policy as a financial folly which will disenfranchise large numbers of traditional Tory voters.
The ludicrously high levels of subsidy that is paying to wind farm developers is what is driving the wind farm development rampage across our countryside.
The folly is made even clearer by the official Government statistics.
We currently have 3414 wind turbines and they produced only 2.7% of our electricity last year.
According to the 2011 Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES), released in July.
Total production – all fuels and sources 383,791 Gwh
Wind onshore 7,137 GWh. Load factor 21.7%
Wind offshore 3,046 GWh. Load factor 30.5%
Wind total 10,183 GWh
Wind total as % total electricity production 2.7%
Solar Photovoltaic (PV) GWh 33 GWh (0.3% of wind power total !!)
Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Load factor 4.9%
It doesn’t look too good for Solar panels either !
Note :Underlined text links to source article.
The full impact of increasing numbers of wind farms on tourism has yet to be assessed. Wind farm developers claim there is no drop in tourists when wind farms are developed.
It is clear from this that Donald Trump thinks that tourists will be put off by a view of an offshore wind farm.