Wind Power Generation – Wind Turbines - The Argument in Favour
There are people who find the sight of Wind turbines on the skyline, an ugly eyesore.
There are others who see them as elegant, with an artistic beauty, which, for them, greatly enhances the landscape.
There are those who, having experienced the misery and pollution of dirty power production, want our power production, here in the far south west, to be clean and non-polluting.
The monstrosity and terror of the numerous cancers, which appear to have been introduced into our world with the advent of the splitting of the atom in the first place, and the ignorant misuse of nuclear everything in sight from the atom bomb to aerial nuclear testing to nuclear power production and nuclear weapons, must make us wary of continuing any further down that road.
Certainly, having trialled my dogs right underneath the wind turbines at Delabole in Cornwall, where neither sheep, dogs nor men and women were in the least affected, I feel that I can speak with some assurance as to the safety, as well as, in my eyes at least, their beauty.
Indeed, the gentle, rhythmic swishing of the sails was relaxing and peaceful, even when the youngest dog took off across the skyline with his packet of sheep racing, ears and tails up in panic – in short – no different to sheep and dogs anywhere else in the UK and certainly not caused by the wind turbines – just lack of training and discipline.
Further, it is testimony as to their efficacy, that we can still see every rock and stone, every bush and roof, festooned in lichens – not just one type, either, but probably hundreds of different ones.
And lichens cannot live in dirty polluted air, proving that the air of Cornwall is as clean as anywhere in the Country and probably cleaner than most.
Do I want nuclear or coal fired energy production in my back yard?
No, I do not, and I don’t want it in anyone else‘s either.
And that isn’t ‘Nimbyism’, it’s just plain common sense.
Wind power is only one way of achieving clean energy and as an Island, Britain is probably one of the most fortunate places on earth because we can choose so many different methods to enhance the whole of our production, with the minimum of pollution.
Yes – I have heard the argument that there are nuclear power stations just over the Channel in France.
Indeed, and every 3rd person over here, just across that narrow stretch of water, is going down with cancer.
I rest my case.
Tess Nash
Chairman
UKIP St Ives
Cornwall
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