SIR, — I attended the Novera Energy Windfarm exhibition on Wednesday, July 23, and found it to be uninformative and disappointing.
The photographs displayed depicted wind turbines sited in heather-carpeted hills. There were no houses in the pictures, or indeed anything to assist the viewer in determining their height.
The maps of the area surrounding the sites were cropped
in order to omit houses close to the site.
The leaflets handed out contained many trite and misleading statements. For example, 80 percent of people support windfarms.
There has been no opinion poll carried out to back up this claim, and if such a poll were to be done and it asked the question 'Would you support the construction of a windfarm where it would destroy any views you may have and subject you to constant noise pollution', the result would probably be nil.
Bearing in mind that the wind turbines are to be 430ft high, which is taller than any building in the UK outside London, the exhibition should have used three dimensional models rather than crosses on a map. This would have shown the full horror of the proposal.
Could it be that the developers are trying to obscure the facts?
KEITH TARN
Longhorsley
Morpeth
The full article contains 210 words and appears in n/a newspaper.
