Banks Developments have at last responded to P.W.A.G's Objection Document by engaging an Environment and Planning Consultant to comment on our assertions that Went Edge and the surrounding communities would be devastated by the proposal.  Surprisingly the consultant does not contest what we have said, but tries to make the case that government policy and environmental targets placed by government on local authorities should prevail over local conditions.  How can that be right? Why don't Banks, the government and their consultants look for the most appropriate sites and promote them together so that inappropriate sites such as Westfield Lane do not waste so much time and public money before being thrown out.

Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are rightly regarded in most countries as an environmental monstrosity.

- Nigel Lawson, Time, May 21, 2008

The larger the share of wind power in a particular grid, the more standby power will have to be available in that grid.

-The World Wind Energy Association.

Turbines are getting so big and overpowering as to be outrageous in any rural context. Their impacts on the landscapes and lives of people is totally disproportionate to the minuscule contribution they make in providing renewable energy and the pitiful savings they offer in CO₂ reductions.

-Peter Ogden, Council for the Preservation of Rural Wales, Western Mail, 5 Dec., 2006

They're just a symbol for politicians who want to be seen to be green.

- Ann West, Country Guardian, U.K.