I READ with some dismay about another Nimby protest against proposed wind turbines spoiling the natural beauty of the landscape (Gazette, September 19).
Wind turbines are designed specifically to be both eco-efficient and aesthetically beautiful.
Wind turbines' slim structure offer a minimal intervention in our countryside, which we must remember, has been created by human beings.
Field boundaries, hedges, crops, grazing cattle or sheep, managed woodland, roads, trackways and paths have all be made or placed there by people not nature.
Their noise is often highly exaggerated.
Portraying turbines as killers of birdlife is also overwrought and Nimbys often forget that the domestic cat is little more than an indiscriminate killing machine.
Also, recent research also shows than wind turbines do not adversely affect property prices.
With climate change kicking in, our desperate need to cut carbon and energy security being a key national issue, we need an energy mix which must wholeheartedly embrace renewables.
If we don’t, it is quite likely that there will be fracking near you. And there will be no stopping that.
John Blewitt
Chairman
Malvern Hills Green Party
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