Sir, - There will always be people who don't want change and wish the landscape to remain just the same. In the railway age the Duke of Beaufort refused permission for the line to cross his land and the Great Western Railway was forced to build a tunnel under the Duke's estate. Luckily, there were enlightened landowners who thought otherwise.
Today, we are in the wind energy age. What better than to harness the force of the wind to produce the miracle of electricity, which at the push of a button lights our homes, feeds the television and warms the house? And to do this without pollution from a resource which will last as long as the world survives?
What is more, the very windmills have their own fascination, their giant 32-metre arms revolving slowly with only the buzz of a refrigerator and their blades feathered by computer to allow free passage of wind in a gale. How much better than burning fossil fuels, which in the passage of time will come to an end anyway and which in our prevailing western winds carry noxious fumes across Europe to damage the growth of forest trees?
And as for the enterprise making a profit, it is increased profits which sustain the economic boom of America which has lasted so long and in turn feed the cost of government and pave the way for a policy of lower taxation. Read the American bestseller The Way The World Works. - Yours, etc.,
Sir Richard Keane, Cappoquin House, Cappoquin, Co Waterford.