The government has given the go ahead for two huge wind farms out in the Thames Estuary. One that they are calling the London Array will be the largest in the world with enough output to supply 1million homes. It will cover 90 sq.miles and the second will cover 13.5 sq.miles.
Personally I don’t have a problem with it being there, its 12 miles off shore and you will probably have more chance of seeing it from a ferry heading to Felixstowe than on the Estuary shoreline.
Some wind farms are wrong for the location the planners want.
I saw a programme a short while ago about an island off the west of Scotland, I think it was Stornoway, where the planners wanted to build a massive wind farm on land to take advantage of the winds coming in from the north Atlantic. It sounded great on paper, but the island was beautiful, with a few thousand Gaelic speakers living there, and once you saw the computer generated wind farm with its giant turbines spread across the island it looked pretty bad. I think the locals are still fighting it.
If they’re built a way out at sea I’m sure most of the objections to them will disappear, out of sight, out of mind. It may also slow down the government hitting everybody with ridiculous green taxes every chance they get.
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