Letter: Shropshire, windfarms and hypocrisy

Letter: We must be soft in the head in Wales. While North Powys had 103 wind turbines about 150 feet in height at Llandinam in the mid-90s, followed by dozens more at Carno, Bryn Titley, Cefn Croes and elsewhere . . . Shropshire, just across Offa's Dyke did not have a single wind turbine.

Now, through the idiotic, traitorous TAN 8 proposals of our lapdog quisling government, between 400 and 800 absolutely gigantic 400 to 450 feet high wind turbines are now proposed for that tranquil rural county.

Now, it seems that people in Shropshire, who have done nothing to prevent the desecration of Montgomery over the past 25 years, are getting upset by the pylon lines to carry the sporadic electricity from the Welsh hills to North West England.

Others are getting upset over 'one or two large wind turbines to the west of Bridgnorth'. Diddums.

Well, all I'll say to them is "Why have you not long protested about the hundreds of wind turbines in the adjoining county of Powys, which are supplying England, not Wales, with electricity?

You have sat back for years and allowed Wales to be desecrated without a word of protest – and now you are fussing over your first one or two wind turbines and the pylons to take the sporadic Welsh supply to your fellow English people. Sickening.

How about erecting 200 or 300 wind turbines, 400ft high, in Shropshire? Would Telford Friends of the Earth spokesman Robert Sanders (letters, September 6) support that many? Or is he only interested in one or two as a 'windy' tokenism and 'green' veneer?

Hypocrisy and Nimbyism rule in Shropshire.

LJ Jenkins

Cardigan