“I'm 22 and I was born in Devon, I love it and I think it's beautiful. However I think it's disgraceful that some of the more ignorant people in my county can convince themselves that wind energy is bad, just because they don't want to see their landscape change. I want to give them some very simple bits of information:

1. The landscape WILL be far more affected in the long term due to climate change

2. Saying wind farms are 'unsightly' is your opinion, what a weak argument.

3. The RSPB says that the biggest threat to birds is climate change.

4. Another big threat to birds is roads. You may have notice that these, along with pylons and telegraph wires, completely dissect the moor, and are ever so slightly at "odds with the unspoilt nature of the landscape"

4. Exmoor was made into a moor in 1818, after most of its forests were chopped down.

5. There is unfortunately not ONE way forward, there have to be many, tide, solar, wind and wave must ALL be utilised. None of them are hugely effective, but they at least produce CLEAN energy.

5. Studies of wind farms in Scotland have showed that they irrefutably BENEFIT the tourism industry of the area.

I am so ashamed at the backward nature of older generations in my county. All our lavish and wasteful lifestyles have contributed to natural disasters in poorer communities in the world. People have died, lost their homes, lost their jobs, lost their families, species have become threatened, eco systems have disappeared, and you half-wits are worried about wind turbines spoiling the view?”

“i think they should put the wind farms in because they cound save your life on day”

“I an very glad to hear of this decision. Planners HAVE to keep very tight controls on these farms, if they do not you will have every land owner in the county wanting to cash in. And before you know it they would be everywhere.

Yes we need 'green' energy, but wind farms are not the way forward, they are unsightly for one, and two, they are useless when the wind is not blowing.

This winter should be a warning to all that think wind power is the way to go. This year this country came closer to not having enough energy to keep up with demand than it as done in many years. So if we were to build hundreds of these fantastic wind farms and close down a load of our conventional power stations, what do you think would happen when we have another really cold winter - you know those really cold days when the air is very still? Our reliance on this form of energy would plunge half the country into blackouts because the turbines would stop turning. Wind power is not the answer. It is not consistent.

What is consistent however is the tides - notice i say 'tide' and not waves, waves have a similar problem to the wind, no wind = no waves. But the tide?, twice a day without fail you can rely on the tide. Yes, it will vary between spring and neap tides, but that is something we can predict, we know exactly how much tide there will be each day, and we can forecast it for years to come. For as long as the earth keeps spinning and the moon stays in orbit, we will be able to rely on the tide.

And it just so happens that we live in an area with the largest rise and fall of tide in the whole world - the Bristol Channel. If our government is serious about global warming, then it's about time they put there money where there mouth is and started to chuck some real money in the direction of the small companies that are struggling to find the funds in order to build systems capable of harnessing the power we have flowing up and down the channel every day of the year. But instead they are happier just jumping on the band wagon and bringing out rushed and ill thought out laws like banning ordinary light bulbs. Now we are forced to buy bulbs that are far from being 'green'. The production of these bulbs produces much more pollution than it takes to produce an ordinary bulb, plus the new 'green' bulbs are far from green when it comes to their disposal - have you ever looked at all the components inside one? And, when the day comes that we do actually utilise the power of the tides on our door step, which bulb will be greener then? The one that burns more of our 'totally green' energy source, or the one that leaves us with loads of poisonous components once we have finished with it?”

“This was the right decision. Can anyone tell me if there is even a single wind farm anywhere in the world, that has provided the continuous output forecast by the developers? They can't, because there isn't one. Indeed, there isn't one that comes within minus 20% of the claims made.
With MMGW "withering on the vine of lies & corruption", may I recommend NUCLEAR?!
As for Lord Manley, we do have clean Nuclear renewable power stations in the SW - and, long may it remain so!”

“Oh come on! This is the best decision. WInd farms are not worth the paper they are proposed on! They produce very little energy, have a huge carbon footprint in terms of what it takes to actually manufacture and put up and also they don't work 70% of the time because the wind is not strong enough. They are just a "box ticker" for the government, NOT a sustainable source of renewable energy.”