This issue of wind turbines seems to trouble people a lot. Why? Is it really only the landscape? What about all the electricity pylons, farm yards with rusty machinery, collapsing buildings, etc? I think they are more unpleasant to look at than turbines.

Are we maybe only concerned because other people say they are bad?

Before we all go rioting against turbines, we should maybe first think about what the alternatives would be. No wind turbines means no power. Maybe not just yet, because we can still rely on cheap coal, oil and gas for a couple more years to come, but that just so isn't going to last. We need to find alternatives now.

Alternatives to wind turbines? Well, a nuclear power station, let's say in Banff. And then what? Another Fukoshima (a Banffoshima with a 30-mile dead zone)? Or maybe we prefer power cuts? Can't use either the washing machine or the power drill. Other renewables are, unfortunately, not enough developed yet to mass produce them.

We are better off building?local wind turbines, independent from the world's energy crisis, which is the main reason for your fuel bill going up. Areas with wind turbines will become more attractive than those without. Who wants to live in a house with no power?

I know that there are problems which need considering before we put up wind turbines in our area. But only shouting at each other will lead to nothing. We have to meet and calmly find a solution together, a local solution to a global problem. The age of cheap energy is over. - Yours etc,

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