Green versus a pleasant land? (From Dorset Echo)

Green versus a pleasant land?

LIKE Mrs McShea (Power Struggle for Green Future, Have Your Say, July 27) I have grandchildren and worry about the future of our planet and what it will be like when they are my age – coming up to 70.

BATTLEFIELD: Opposition to plans for a wind farm in East Stoke, near Wareham

Unlike her I do not blame Labour for the closure of Vestas.

I believe that the present government has done all it can to keep this factory open.

Vestas was funded originally by both UK and EU grants to get it started and has been given every assistance to expand its operations. Indeed, today it was given an extra £10 million to develop its R&D.

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The firm makes wind turbines for land use in general and the US market in particular.

Some green groups and trades unionists have called upon the government to nationalise Vestas. Nonsense! You can build all the wind turbines you want but if you can’t sell them then you’ve wasted the taxpayers’ money.

Why can’t they be sold? Mrs McShea is partially correct when she blames Nimbys. Readers may wish to have an internet trawl through the Isle of Wight council minutes or ThWART (The Wight Against Wind Turbines) or CPRE (I prefer Reactionary rather than Rural in this acronym).

They all have a common thread. Yes, green renewable energy is good but no, we don’t want it here.

Where do our local Tory MPs and councils stand on this issue? It’s all gone quiet over there!

The CPRE in their objection to a proposed wind farm at Glynd-bourne argued, successfully, on the grounds of “tranquillity”.

Yeah, right. The environment is going to hell in a basket, 650 jobs on the IOW are going down the pan, Mrs McShea’s and my grandchildren don’t have much of a future but as long as middle England is tranquil that’s OK then, is it?

HOWARD DAVIES, Holme Road, Highcliffe