THE cost of Navitus Bay’s Wind Park is estimated at over £3billion, which will be subsidised through our taxes and our utility bills. The profits will go to Eneco, a foreign company.

It will not be environmentally clean in its construction and is likely to create much CO² and pollution by the heavy lorries and large boats transporting massive machinery. The machinery will cause pollution and noise by its use.

The lifetime of these turbines is only 25-30 years. After that time what will happen to these indestructible, non-recyclable giants? In Navitus Bay’s environmental statement, of 50 pages, one tiny paragraph headed “De-commissioning”, states that the plan “will be prepared prior to the start of construction”. Scenes of defunct, useless, tilted turbines come to mind.

Each turbine needs up to 45 metres in diameter and 25 metres in depth cut into the seabed to install. Countless microscopic plants and animals live on and in the seabed and keep the water clean, while algae and plankton reduce CO² in the atmosphere. The seabed creatures cannot be replaced and pollution will be inevitable.

Nature and local geology have provided us with a beautiful and unique coastline. Do we really want to industrialise it?

Other objections to this scheme concern danger to shipping, sailing, diving and sea based activities, migrating and local bird populations, dolphins and other sea mammals, fishing and endangered sea life such as sea-horses.

Financially the £3 billion would be better spent on providing thousands of homes with solar panels which would benefit our own people rather than a foreign company. We must save our heritage not destroy it.

Ruth Neary

Dahlia Close

Weymouth