29/06/12 The mad pressure for wind farms

The Welsh Assembly is putting pressure on local councils to hurry up and approve lots more onshore wind farms. You get the impression that these people, who are supposed to look after our interests, won't be satisfied until they have covered most of the Welsh countryside with these giant industrial structures. The stupid thing about all this situation is that it makes no sense to place these so called wind farms on prominent hill tops. There might be more wind there as opposed to alongside city centres, but any gain in energy output is lost through transmission loss. There is also the extra building cost of transporting the structures to outlying sites and the cost of a huge number of  unsightly giant pylons wending across the countryside. It makes no economic sense.You get the impression that these politicians are not really interested in the opinion of local people, who cannot be bribed by the developers,  but that polical parties are only interested in promoting their green credentials. So the madness is, that to protect the environment, you must destroy the environment!