VORTEX
WIND FARM ACTION GROUP
Veto On Rural Turbine EXpansion

The Inspector appointed to hold the enquiry was

Mr Trevor Cookson DipTP MRTPI.
The inquiry  began on Wed. 6th May
at Woore Victory Hall
and lasted for 13 days

Mr Cookson dismissed both appeals

Wind power does not respond to demand. It may or may not be there when needed. ... We will therefore need as much other electricity sources with wind as we would without. ... It is not just unnecessary but offensive to entertain industrial-scale development of the ridgelines, with strobe lights and noise and ecological degradation that far surpasses anything now on the mountains, for such obvious nonsense.
Eric Rosenbloom, Vt.

Big Coal and Big Oil are some of the biggest developers of wind energy. Wind is a tax-sheltering adjunct to their business, not a replacement.

— "Huckle"

The irreparable ecological damage, loss of amenity and distressing divisions within communities caused by industrial wind turbines far outweigh any benefit of their insignificant and unreliable contribution to our energy needs. Their tiny, intermittent output of electricity and negligible CO2 savings cannot possibly justify the sacrifice of our most potent national symbol and finite resource - the magnificent landscapes of Wales

— Angela Kelly, Country Guardian, U.K.

“The fight for a quieter world becomes obscured when feelings about a noise are divorced from the noise itself. We are told that how we react to a given noise may be influenced by our attitude towards the noise source, our state of health and well-being, our personalities, education, income, previous exposure, ad nauseum............
it is relatively simple to measure the physical quality of the noise signal, its decibel level, frequency distribution, duration, number of occurrences per unit of time, etc. It is virtually impossible to measure the significant human response to noise. Schemes for predicting complaints and evaluating annoyance responses are crude guidelines, their effectiveness questioned by even the noise specialists.”
Robert Alex Baron, The Tyranny Of Noise: The World’s Most Prevalent Pollution,How It’s Hurting You And How To Fight It (New York St. Martins Press, 1970)  

Europe should scrap its support for wind energy as soon as possible to focus on far more efficient emerging forms of clean power generation including solar thermal energy, one of the world’s most distinguished scientists said yesterday.