WHY DON’T PEOPLE LIKE GIANT WIND TURBINES?

Thousands of people in this country and thousands more all over the world don’t like giant wind turbines. There are now around one hundred campaign groups in this country opposing these massive industrial structures.

Why?

• They are unable to significantly address our energy and carbon emissions issues and so are a waste of your (tax payers) money,  which could instead fund development of constant green energy sources such as tidal power.
   

• They devalue your property, an affect that continues. See the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors survey on the affects of wind farms on house prices.
   

• They damage the economy, that is to say, your business. The North Devon Marketing Bureau survey on the Fullabrook Down wind turbine proposal showed a potential loss of a quarter of its tourism revenue if the proposal were allowed to go ahead. Most of these proposals are in the countryside where tourism is a very large part of the economy.
   

• 2 MW wind turbines, as proposed at Batsworthy Cross, are a 100m tall, with blades of 40m long. They are three times the size of those in Cornwall.
   

• The three, 40m long, exposed blades revolve at up to 150mph at their tip.
   

• A small wind turbine site may have about 9 turbines.
   

• 27, exposed, revolving, 40m blades make a noise. The noise is repetitive and de-habilitating and can travel across the land in an unpredictable way.
   

• 27, exposed, revolving, 40m blades create shadow flicker, the visually impairing strobe effect caused by the shadows of the revolving blades.
   

• That is 27, exposed, revolving, 40m blades to project ice and broken blade components over distances of hundreds of metres.
   

• That is 9, giant wind turbines to topple over or to catch fire.
   

• And all of this right next door to your roads, your footpaths, your bridleways (see the British Horse Society), your friends, your visitors, your home and your loved ones.
   

• The foundations, built of hundreds of tonnes of concrete and steel are never  removed and can have serious hydrological impacts, affecting watercourses.
   

• Wind turbines can kill bats and birds (see RSPB).
   

• Wind turbines have interfered with television reception up to 20km away.
   

• The build alone of approximately one year involves serious disruption with noise, increased traffic, traffic jams, road alterations and road closures. The lorries to carry the turbine parts are 50 metres long (164ft).

AND WHAT FOR?

• One 2MW turbine will save about the same amount of CO2 per hour as two heavy duty vehicles travelling at 100kph. The cost per year of this tiny saving, i.e. the subsidy paid to the wind developers, is around £200,000
   

• You’d need about 2,000 2MW turbines to get the same yearly energy output of that of a modern conventional power station. AND then you’d still need the power station for firm backup, to meet demand when the wind blows too much, too little or not at all.
   

• To allow one more such industrial development in this country is to invite another to a hill near you. Have you visited Scotland or Wales recently?

Email contact@twomoorscampaign.co.uk  or phone 01884 81278/559