Article by Uttoxeter Advertiser, www.uttoxeteradvertiser.co.uk

An action group against a planned giant wind turbine near Uttoxeter have backed their MP?s calls for an investigation into the noise levels from such structures.

Bill Cash MP, whose constituency covers the village of Checkley which is all set for a 60m high testing mast and eventual turbine, has made the call for the recognition of health consequences of wind turbine noise.

Article by www.thisisdevon.co.uk 11 January 2010

Just before Christmas I could not believe the "front" of a wind farm supporter whose letter condemned an objector for using misleading statistics when arguing against wind farms.

The wind industry is founded on highly-spun, misleading statistics.

For example the "number of homes" figures developers love conveniently omit to mention that homes account for only 29 per cent of electricity use.

Until the Advertising Standards Agency was persuaded that it was not possible to selectively replace electricity that would have been generated in a coal-fired power station, developers claimed carbon offsets double what is now allowed.

But because of the intermittent, highly variable nature of the electricity produced by wind farms, high carbon costs are incurred in keeping the grid stable. Fossil-fuelled power stations have to be turned up and down rapidly which, a retired power engineer told me, "is like driving a steam train around the M25 in rush hour". These costs are never accounted for.