Proposed wind farm at Davidstow. (2 Viewers)

[KnockerNorton]

Hello lads, this wind farm issue is really major, I totally agree, but i used to live near Drax and ferrybridge power stations in England and to see the amount of crap come out of the chimneys and how far it floats even with all the so called filters etc, they still cause acid rain and pump out massive amounts of CO2 and other stuff .

'Acid rain' was virtually eradicated decades ago, fella. Drax was fitted with scrubbers a long long time ago and is one of the cleanest plants in the world. What mainly comes out of the chimneys there is water vapour and CO2, the latter of which goes straight up into the atmosphere. You can;t actually "see" any of the "crap" that comes out at all, as CO2 is invisible. What you DO see, from the fat chimneys (cooling towers), is the water vapour that has driven the turbines. It's the taller, skinny chimney that actually does any polluting, and you can't see anything coming out of that.

Re Davidstow, I think launching an objection on the basis of vagrant waders is a bit of a non-starter - those birds are 'dead' to the population anyway and are in tiny numbers. You can possibly bend your energy policy to accommodate 250,000 wintering waders on an estuary, but not an occasional buff-breasted sandpiper on an airfield.

If massive Govt subsidies of public money were not dropped into the palms of industrial power companies such as 'Community Windpower' (what have they got to do with the 'community', one wonders?), then these wind power stations wouldn't be economically viable, because they're so inefficient at actually doing their job - generating power. They also industrialise landscapes. Calling them wind 'farms' is like calling Drax a coal farm.

 

[camelbirder]

Re Davidstow, I think launching an objection on the basis of vagrant waders is a bit of a non-starter - those birds are 'dead' to the population anyway and are in tiny numbers.

I don't think anyone has objected to this project because of vagrant birds, the main bird interest is the million or so Starlings.

The Buff-breasted Sandpiper figures were put online because of a query. Besides who says they are a vagrant, the figures for Cornwall would put them as a Rare Autumn Passage Migrant.

 

[camelbirder]

Great views of the Pect. Sand. yesterday showing well at the pool below the Control Tower.

 

[Stevie babe]

I don't think anyone has objected to this project because of vagrant birds, the main bird interest is the million or so Starlings.

The Buff-breasted Sandpiper figures were put online because of a query. Besides who says they are a vagrant, the figures for Cornwall would put them as a Rare Autumn Passage Migrant.

I'd also add that another serious reason for stopping such wind farms is that the public will be denied access to those large tracts of land - so recently made available to the public by the govenrment - and so the effects of ecological / environmental disturbance whether it be harmful or beneficial cannot be seen by independant observers.