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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nirofo" data-source="post: 1623981" data-attributes="member: 1854">Objection sent. Too many windfarms are being built for no other reason than to earn big bucks for the builders and landowners. The old chestnut that it's to help reduce the effects of global warming doesn't work anymore for anyone who has an ounce of common sense. In any case, why do they always have to build them where they will do most environmental damage. What's wrong with building them on some of the old industrial sites next to the cities, or maybe we could have community windfarms built on the edge of towns or in some of the parks, such as Regents Park. No, that's too close too home, (NOT IN MY BACKYARD). If we must have these costly, inefficient and environment destroying monsters, lets build them where they are most useful, near to the major population centres of the country where the necessary infrastructure is already in place. Don't lets kid ourselves it's to save the environment, they destroy far more environment than they save!</blockquote>