LOVE them or loathe them, windfarms are here to stay on the North Wales coastline.
North Wales Weekly News reporter Shelley Coyle braved the choppy seas to chart the development of the new Rhyl Flats windfarm last week. Once the project is completed in July 2009, Rhyl Flats will generate 90mw each year - that’s enough energy to power 61,000 homes in the UK.
So are these windfarms a blight on the natural landscape and detrimental to tourism? Or a visually inspiring reminder of the way in which Wales is leading the way in working to limit climate change?
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Howard Standring wrote...
The wind farms are certainly another source of much needed electrical power in the move foward to reduce our heavy reliance on coal / oil / gas for reasons of which we are all aware.
North Wales is my home somewhere which I'm proud of and is a very beautiful part of the world. Provided our planning groups in the respective counties take into consideration some of the sensitivities of locations then we should support and welcome wind farms.
Land based farms certainly can affect neighbouring communities and careful consideration needs to be given before actually going ahead. With regard to the farms offshore, then provided they are in selective groups, don't hinder shipping / fishing activities they do have an interesting appeal from the on-looker. Obviously if a proposal we brought forward for an offshore wind farm in a beautiful spot such as off Puffin Island / Menia Straits / Llandudno bay, I'd oppose them without a doubt.
Lets be honest with each other, everyone has a responsibility to look after this wonderful world [our wonderful part of the world - North Wales] for our next generation to enjoy in the same way that we have. It's all about education. Learn to switch off that TV / Video / lights and reduce your electricity bill, inturn this reduces the load on the grid, every little helps. Wind is free / clean and we have plenty in North Wales all year around so lets make the most of it.
Cycling along the coast is a past time Judith my wife and I really enjoy, looking out to see the wind farms turning by it rain or shine we find a pleasing sight knowing that they are making power 24 hours a day 7 days a week without burning some sort of fuel and creating global warming and waste.
In summary, take the time to find out more, ask question, there are really good information leafets in Post Offices & Supermarkets, learn how switching off those electrical points will save you money and go toward a cleaner environment, its actually good fun once you understand it and gives you a good feeling, like recycling, its an every day norm, same as wind farms are.
Howard Standring
Posted by: Howard Standring | July 10, 2008 3:23 AM