Letter: Calling for green power in Shropshire

Dear Rea Valley residents and farmers, I am so disappointed you aren't proud of a step forward in essential green energy production for us and our supporting planet.

Please go to Ecotricity's annual report and see Dale's sunmills and bee flower meadows under his windmills and the new seamill.

Shropshire must have, immediately, as many sources of green local energy as it can. I was appalled to read a few weeks ago that someone thinks people who say wind energy is a viable future energy source, is a lunatic – as it can't possibly replace oil and gas.

On its own, no it can't, but that's the point – we need many, varied, local energy installations and should be proud of them – intelligent evolution in Darwin's county.

I think they are beautiful, especially if white. They are like angels wings saving us from the poisons of gas.

Wood pellets are not an answer – as they invite further tree destruction and recycled pellets may have toxic glues and residues released and their manufacture involves biocides that poison land, soil and the water table.

We currently have a major catastrophe with gas leaking. This can only get worse – no thanks to our greedy, blinkered, shortsighted, over-consumerist climate meddling and 200 years of mining, making tectonic plate weaknesses, holes, causing more volcanoes and tsunamis. Time for an urgent green revolution.

Let the Gorge, where the industrial revolution began, lead in green energy, not continue with a forest destructive option that will be oil-miled here.

Why don't we use human sewage for a local gas supply? Good recycling. You can run heating systems on canistered gas, ideal for places like Bishop's Castle where there are no pipes to save having a large container.

But even then I think one could be hidden between copses somewhere, and would be lower and far less ugly and unhealthy than the proposed incinerator. A better use of that site.

Newena Martin, Shrewsbury