YOUR report (LET, February 23) talks about MP Nigel Evans and Ribble Valley residents being opposed to plans to build a wind farm at Longridge Fell. Why?

Surely, in 1996, any move towards producing electricity without burning fossil fuels should be encouraged. I agree that the area is an area of outstanding beauty, but it is no more so than the moors above Cliviger where a wind farm has lived happily now for several years and has indeed proved quite a tourist attraction.

Mr Evans talks about the farm as a "scar" on the landscape. Does he mean like Whinney Hill at Accrington, or the cement works at Clitheroe? Not quite that bad, Mr Evans, I don't think.

Perhaps what is really the issue here is a case of "we in the Ribble Valley don't desire this - but it's OK anywhere else in East Lancashire."

Maybe when Whitebirk, Huncoat and Padiham power stations were recently demolished, one could have been rebuilt on Longridge Fell to generate electricity for these moaning people. Then they could have genuine cause for complaint.

MICHAEL DARBYSHIRE, Arthur Street, Great Harwood.

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