Spoiling of Romney Marsh
The erection of the 26 towers of the wind-farm on Romney Marsh, each 377 ft high, is now nearly complete.
The project was forced through by the Government against the reasoned objections of the county council, all local councils, many residents, local MPs, and even the Archbishop of Canterbury. That decision at a public inquiry was made as the result of an EU directive which imposed on government a requirement that an arbitrary percentage of generated power should come from “renewable” sources.
The costs of wind farms can only be met if heavily subsidised by the taxpayer. The benefits derived from those costs are paltry, and negative in “green” terms. The beneficiaries are not the general citizens made to pay the subsidies but those fortunate farmers on whose land they are sited, and companies outside Britain which manufacture and service the machinery and generate electricity. In some places, well-sited and in the right number, these modern windmills may have some aesthetic attraction (more perhaps than pylons marching across the land).
But this wind farm imposes itself on the eye from almost everywhere on Romney and Walland Marshes. It is an industrial eyesore filling the horizon of one of the last and most beautiful rural landscapes in the over-populated South-East. Come and look — and weep.
John Waite, Ivychurch, Kent
6 October 2008
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