[Pete]

Have seen the masts that have been put up in the area. Don't know what the fuss is about! Mush less obtrusive than the electricity pylons running through the Vale and not that big.

[Mobster]

Pete, on Jun 4 2009, 03:07 PM, said:

Have seen the masts that have been put up in the area. Don't know what the fuss is about! Mush less obtrusive than the electricity pylons running through the Vale and not that big.

I've seen them too as I live within 450 metres of one. The proposed turbines are almost double their height, there will be not just one turbine but 5 round us in this proposed first phase (and possibly more to come later, expansion has happened elsewhere!), they are bright white (masts are green), the turbine blades move and create flicker and noise, and the breathtaking views of a green, pleasant, unspolit landscape (that can be seen on Malvern, Bredon, the Cotswold edge, Aberley) that our generation were lucky enough in East W orcestershire to inherit will be changed for the worse for at least 25 years.

And for what? 20% of the rated capacity of the turbines, so poor a return that to make it happen taxpayers have to place an enormous bribe ("subsidy") to landowners and the electricity company. It beggars belief that on all the days up here that the wind doesn't blow (and there are many) where does the electricity come from to power our 24x7 economy, companies and households. Oh and there are likely to be serious consequences for the health of those living within 2km, a risk recognised by the Scottish, German, Danish..... only in England can local politicians, planners and power companies ride roughshod over these guidelines, on the grounds they are only guidelines (even though guidelines from our own government).

I know we need renewables, but this, on land near habitation is not the answer. Smacks of a dying, discredited government who realise they should have been sorting this out seriously over the last 12 years, and grasping at straws to tick the box for the Kyoto agreement Blair signed us all up to. Pity the politicians didn't listen to the engineers and the experts. Pity us poor fools and taxpayers.

[Pete]

Ah, I thought that the masts were the same height as the turbines.

Still can't get my head round what they'll look like in place, are there any within easy drive of Evesham?