Put it in my back yard.

A_fiend_for_life

'Put it in my back yard' , a breath of fresh air.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/may/10/windpower-energy

The people of Fintry shocked wind farm developers when they requested another wind turbine.

Duncan_H

Brilliant! your right in saying a breath of fresh air. How anyone can consider something so good for the planet to be unsightly is beyond be. Lets hope one day everyone will embrace these renewable sources

Ben84

Duncan_H wrote: »

Brilliant! your right in saying a breath of fresh air. How anyone can consider something so good for the planet to be unsightly is beyond be. Lets hope one day everyone will embrace these renewable sources

I think we will, when people start to see the benefits like this when it's planned well.

I suspect part of the problem with wind farms is that some plans have been pretty insensitive to the local area and surroundings. Residents have on occasion been justifiably unhappy with plans to replace or intrude on local beauty spots with wind farms, a problem which is encouraged perhaps by their ideal spots being high up and very visible. Something of an anti-wind farm sentiment seems to have developed now.

There is another angle here though, wind farms can be good use of land. They take up a very small footprint on the ground, so in some places wind farms have been built on existing farm land without reducing its available crop land. We could expand wind farms without converting further natural areas or replacing existing developments.

A_fiend_for_life

I think a lot of communities could find it difficult to raise the funds for an additional turbine. If the government could match funds raised I think it would help move things forward. Another avenue might be setting up a carbon offset scheme as a means of raising revenue. It would need investigating to find out the source of objections for wind farms. If it is mostly local resident objections it should make planning applications more successful.