I WAS exasperated to read the letter from Graeme McIver, the Rossendale and Darwen Green Party candidate, on the subject of the proposed Uglow (or, should I say, ugly) wind farm beyond Edgworth.
Not so, Mr McIver. Noise is a factor in these monstrous intrusions on our moors.
Just take the trouble to visit some of the poor folk in Cumbria who have had these ghastly spectres forced on their doorsteps and ask them what they think of the noise.
As an adopted Boltonian, originally from the London suburbs but whose love for our moorlands caused me to settle in Bolton, I am aghast that you could condone the sighting of 100 metre-high wind turbines over one of the loveliest valleys in our area.
As a correspondent said recently, "It is like taking a knife to a Constable".
Do you really support the industrialisation of our countryside on a scale that may far outstrip that of the mill era?
One only needs to look at the economies of our wind power generation to realise that people like yourself are merely paying lip service to this form of so-called green energy in the vain hope of conning the public into voting for you at the general election.
As I have said before in letters to this paper, land-based wind energy on a commercial scale will never be viable without huge government subsidy.
Dr IVG James
Chapeltown Road
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