A little later this month the decision on whether 4 giant wind turbines are to be erected just above here will be made. The construction is very likely to destroy the precious wildlife sites I have here by causing polluted run off into the Iron Mill Stream – home to Atlantic Salmon and otters.

The Environment Agency said, when I queried this that some pollution was inevitable but if I ring their pollution control hotline they would try to deal with it.  Excuse me – but, by the time I notice it the damage is done!!!!

Anyway – there is still a 0.0001% chance the decision will be no but the inspector at the Planning Enquiry has never refused a wind turbine development yet. He is well known for it.  In the meantime, I would urge you all to read the last couple of postings on warmwell

This site takes a balanced view which is what I am trying to do.  The science behind climate change (how I hate that phrase which is both overused and misused) is contradictory to say the least and the methods the government is employing to counter “it” are very likely to be totally ineffective. What we SHOULD be doing is pouring all that bottomless pit of money into REDUCING energy expenditure, more effecient use of what we DO use and of course, promoting SMALL scale, local generation projects.

This is not nimbyism just pure commonsense. I would be first in the queue for a SMALL turbine here. But we cannot afford to spend billions chasing impossible targets set arbitrarily by an idealistic government for political reasons. We need instead to force ourselves to  address the forthcoming energy deficit problems head on with a PRACTICAL response. For, being realistic, that is what this is truthfully about. We will run out of oil sooner or later (and even that is an uncertain date!) and we need to be ahead of the game when it does.

Here we have limitless supplies of water for small scale hydrogeneration, unreliable wind for small turbines and a HUGE supply of cow muck for biogas generation. But can I get funding for developing any of these? Not without a huge financial commitment from us and purchasing technology which is changing all the time. The government have totally ignored the needs of the small scale development and are only now begining to wake up to the need for investment in this area.

I despair at the arrogance of our politicians, most of whom have not studied science beyond GCSE level apparently.  Their political needs have been put far above commonsense and the genuine needs of the people they are supposed to serve. In the meantime, billions are wasted on greedy private developers of schemes such as these giant turbines which will make no meaningful contribution to energy supplies or to “climate change”. In the meantime, the wildlife which lives here will suffer. What price green energy then?