Alaska wind farm, East Stoke, this is the view from Stokeford properties we are looking forward to seeing, all we have to do is ensure the Council Planning Board know that the quiet majority are supportive.

Graceful icons of hope for a clean,
green, sustainable future.

For all the arguments about wind farms, it usually comes down to one thing - visibility.
Lots of people like to see them, regarding them as aesthetically pleasing, others do not.
But with the hard realities of climate change and diminishing oil and gas reserves, do we really have the luxury of choice?

Opponents believe they are standing up to protect the countryside but in fact their actions are contributing to our countrys failure to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that threaten to completely change our traditional English Countryside.
The average UK resident is responsible for about 10 tonnes of CO2 per year, that needs to come down to around 2 tonnes if we seriously wish to avoid the worst an over-heating planet can chuck at us.

Coal-fired power stations are the primary load following plant (1),  this means they are powered up when demand increases, turned down when it drops, they are also the most polluting power stations which is why they are used in this way.
Wind turbines directly reduce demand and so prevent emissions from burning coal.

Allowing for wind variability, this wind farm will generate on average 2.48 MW per hour, that's enough to power around 5,000 homes!

Supporters also believe they are standing up to protect the countryside, because global warming will wipe out millions of species, that's why the R.S.P.B. support the majority of wind farm proposals.
And then there is the moral aspects of human suffering and the prospects of food, water and land shortages.

Surely arguing that when you bought the house, you bought the view cannot be justified.


Quote from Sir David Attenborough on the threat from man-made climate change...
"I am  80 now. It's not that I think, like any old man, that change is wrong.  I recognise that the world has always changed, I know that. But the point is, it's changing more extremely and swiftly than at anytime in the past several million years and one of the things I don't want to do is look at my grandchildren and hear them say. "Grandfather, you knew it was happening and did nothing."

"Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life" - Dalai Lama

Unless we change direction, we are likely to end up where we are going - Chinese proverb.


NASA’s top scientist, James Hansen, tells us that business-as-usual would be a guarantee for global disasters.

There is only one proposal for commercial scale, renewable, clean energy generation in our area, it’s the East Stoke wind farm or business-as-usual.

NIMBYism is threatening to prevent us from turning away from dirty fuel and embracing a clean energy (r)evolution. Write to Purbeck Council now.

Short film on 100% renewable energy. Yes we can shut fossil fuel power stations.

George Monbiot talks to the head of C.P.R.E.

 

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(1) Source: Sustainable Development Commission report, 'Wind Power in the UK'