whilst i respect your local area...iyour views bewilder me...this nation needs energy from somewhere. how will you supply energy to run your website? your homes? your children's generations will need electricity and renewable energy is the only reliable way forward. we are running out of time. villages and towns alike need to start acting locally. how do you feel about every home having a wind generator in their garden? this is the alternative for the future. Its far better to have wind turbines off property gardens which are maintained and serviced...and reliable erected.

I aks you to think about the impact your group is having on many future generations. it's time to unite and work with the benefits of nature.

Thank you for reading this.

Ecobout

Ecobout

Thanks for your message.

As a group it has to be said that we are in fact mindful of the future and the points you raise. We all re-cycle, use as little power as posible and share transport when we can. Many local farmers here are part of Ecology Stewardship schemes to preserve the landscape for future generations. As for individual turbines and locally produced green energy then "absolutely, yes please". Within BWAG we are comprised of many age groups and backgrounds but I have yet to find anyone who does not care about the environment and we have even said that small scale wind farms linked to local villages would be a good thing. However those proposed will be taller than the Wolds themselves at 125m and will be seen for over 30km.

That is the argument in a nutshell. We care passionately about the environment, not only here but the rest of the remaining, unspoilt and crowded Bristish Isles. It is not a question of imposing renewables just anywhere that you have a land owner who wants to cash in. Sites must be capable of containing these industrial structures within their surroundings?

Lincolnshire has a huge number of turbines already both along it's eastern coastal plain (with plans for another 5 sites already in the system) and litteraly hundreds off-shore with sub stations being planned in our nationally protected Lincolnshire Wolds AONB that will stretch over the equivaent of 7 football pitches.

At the moment we live in a vale that even today through careful stewardship remains unspoilt with no significant visual detractors and that offers breathtaking views towards the World Heritage site of Lincoln Cathedral (please take a look at some of our movies and galleries on this site). This is the only place left in our county where we have no turbines and like it or not there are countless local people and visitors alike who have expressed support for the BWAG position. Let's also not forget a local planning authority who rejected these plans unanimously. It has also just been announced that the local National Ancient Limewoods SSSI very near to this proposal site is the most northerly breeding place in Britain for the extremely rare Barbastelle bat - this is through careful stewardship schemes fully supported by local people.

This same local authority has passed other plans along the seaboard of the county. Other authorities have passed large numbers of turbines in the fens that we can see from here and still others around the industrial town of Scunthorpe in the north of the county.

Perhaps you can understand why we want to protect this precious place - an increasingly rare location that we believe needs protection for as you put it "future generations". There is more to our countryside than making electricity.

Perhaps we should site some 125m turbines in city parks - what do you think?

Webmaster.

This whole stuation concerns me. I fear that sadly it is becomming harder and harder for green technologies to get aproval due to people objecting on minor grounds, the sceptic in me thinks that many people are just concerned about house prices, which is ironic as I for one would pay extra to be living in an area powered by cleaner energy. In terms of spoilt views I live within 12 miles of over 13 wind turbines in 3 different positions and find them fine to look at, even great, they make stunning photo's with a good camera. Given the choice of wind tubines and a gas power station (Also within 15 miles) which is next to where I work I know what i would prefer to live next to. and for health reason I know where I would want my young son playing near. After all it is our decisions which will affect him and his generation most. Come on people of Lincolnshire be bold and think of others rather than the cost of housing. I wish you all the best and if they are indeed built in the end, I would hope to think that you may be more positive once you have lived with them for a while. All the best.

could I suggest the ancient art of rubbing two sticks together....