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Thursday, 2nd September 2010

Advertising toy to the wind power industry

Dr David Bellamy, Bishop Auckland, County Durham and Dr John Etherington, Llanhowell, Pembrokeshire

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Published Date: 01 May 2008
WE are much angered that the National Trust has sold itself as an advertising toy to the wind power industry and would make so bold as to remind the Trust that in the early days, Octavia Hill campaigned against the despoliation of our open spaces which wind turbines most certainly do (Peak Park's 'bold' decision to back estate wind turbine, Telegraph, April 24).
Read more: Peak Park's 'bold' decision to back estate wind turbine

Wind power has now become a matter of great controversy and in this case, within a National Park, it would be far more advantageous to run a heating and generating system fuelled by waste biomass and incurring none of the intermittency problems of wind, with its need for backup.

There is worse to discover. The Trust's sale of its virtue extends to a liaison with nPower, which EnergyWatch shows to have a lower than average electricity output from renewables and a much above average generation from carbon-emitting coal. We hope that this unbelievable "green" hypocrisy on the part of the Trust does not spin-off in lost membership.




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  • Last Updated: 01 May 2008 11:19 AM
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  • Location: SHEFFIELD, SOUTH YORKSHIRE
 
 

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