Letter: Windfarms are taking over my countryside

Letter: Allan Tucker of Oswestry, states "windfarms are not taking over our countryside".

He is quite right. . . because he lives in Shropshire, where there is not a single wind turbine!

However, I am a proud Welshman and wind turbines are most certainly taking over MY countryside in Wales... in their thousands. . . to supply his country, around Manchester with sporadic electricity.

If he wants wind turbines to serve England. . . then put them in Shropshire. What a cheek to support wind turbines in Wales, when he lives in England.

Like most pro-wind energy fanatics, Allan Tucker is completely innumerate. He says that "wind energy supplied a day's electricity for three million homes in 2010."

Big deal! That is only a year's electricity for a paltry 8,219 homes, Mr Tucker.

The truth is the thousands of turbines in the UK saved very little fossil fuels or CO2 emissions in 2010, simply because the back-up fossil fuel power stations are never switched off, due to the unpredictable, highly erratic nature of the wind.

Wind turbines frequently duplicate fossil fuel electricity output. CO2 savings from wind energy are as paltry as they are, are grossly exaggerated!

L J Jenkins

Gwbert