AH! Now we know where you're coming from, Mr Julian Donnelly (Letters, February 27), a lackey of Powergen, believing all their figures and forgetting that their only priority is the shareholder.

Time to use your head and forget your pocket, as I have said before, deal in facts not in PR put out by companies only interested in profit.

Well done wind farms, for supplying the houses in Plymouth; it's four times bigger than Burnley.

People near windmills like them, noise doesn't appear to be a problem.

Powergen's dalliance with wind farms is only an attempt to sleep with the enemy or if there is a chance to make a bob or two, to be in there on the ground floor.

It's perverse to quote Connah's Quay as saving carbon and sulphur dioxide, ash and dust when it pollutes the whole region around it with these foul substances.

But the truly saddest thing of all is the glee in which you tell us that Indonesia and Thailand have gone down the road of using fossil fuels to generate their electricity (thanks to your beloved Powergen); that's the one thing that could prove a tragedy for the whole world.

Besides the First World acting responsibly and cutting its needs for energy we need the Third World to avoid this method and go straight to the new technologies of renewable energy generation.

We need to act now to show the developing world the way, so that we can go outside and breath deeply without the danger of skin tumours, cataracts or a multitude of respiratory complaints.

W A Kembery

Knowsley Road

Blackburn

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