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.

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.

Don't get the idea that I've turned green. My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money.

- T. Boone Pickens, The Guardian (U.K.), Apr. 14, 2008

What is so menacing is the regularity and the scope of the noise, which feels like a giant heartbeat shaking the earth.

- Harry Mount, Daily Mail (U.K.), March 10, 2007