FENLAND Council has debated a policy on wind turbine applications.
This would place the onus of future applications on a single planning officer and is set for approval.
To place the onus on one officer is concerning and worrying to say the least.
Fenland District Council's self-confessed embracement and suppo
rt of the turbine developments could place undue pressure and influence on the officer in question.
The policy does nothing to halt the industrialisation and proliferation of wind turbines in Fenland. Indeed, it merely indicates where new turbines can be built.
Past leader of the council, Alan Melton, has described his involvement in introducing the turbine into Fenland as a "goal". I wish to remind him that, while he played political football with the turbine, it was the environment that paid the "penalty".
Mr Melton says "he is proud that Fenland is now 100 per cent self-sufficient in wind energy". I have read similar statements in wind marketing material many times – it's called public grooming and conditioning into acceptance of one's actions.
Such claims cannot be proven. Statements such as this are made to influence the lesser-informed and are very misleading. they are also based on wishful thinking, and not any real fact.
JOHN STONEMAN,
Cambs Environmental and Wildlife Protection (CEWP).
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