Sabotage rumours follow Bradworthy wind turbine collapse

“@ nocaresgiven

If anybody needs to get a life - it is you! We live there and you probably don't and Endurance have confirmed that it wasn't sabotage at all! What goes round, comes round! You really need to keep up with the facts yourself! Ciao!”

“This is FACT. There was NO sabotage, NO fire, NO melting, NO awakening of neighbours, NO danger to traffic. Tis was all fabricated by the press. The bolts holding the tower sheared off in the highest gusting winds Bradworthy has known in many years. A large engineering mistake. Nothing more and nothing less. Unfortunately this is too boring for the papers but 100% fact.”

“HAHAHAHAHHA...so funny watching you all get so wound up about something you know squat about...unlucky chucks..winge and moan all you want,they'll be a new one up in no time and theres nothing you can do about it.

Reason why its a possible sabotage,is because you should be careful what you write on Facebook (hope you see this).....Don't run your mouths till you know the facts.

Guessing half of you don't even live in Bradworthy yet you just want to stick your nose in..get a life.CIAO.”

“So they think it may be sabotage by anti-turbine protestors? What would be the point? The insurance would cover a new one, we would have to pay for it and a new one would last longer, giving extended visual impact...

If anybody would benefit from the damaged turbine, then it would be the landowner... He would get a brand new machine, lose three years of depreciation, the new one might last an extra three years and he would win, win, win... Furthermore, he would be the only one with access to switch off the turbine whilst the bolts are attacked and thereby reducing the obvious danger factors...

Maybe the North Devon Journal would like to investigate that possibility, rather than trying to blame those who already have to suffer the invasion of these industrial and ineffective monstrosities?”

“It's beginning to sound like a Dale Vince story.

The multi-millionaire 'hippie wind tycoon' told the press that the catastrophic turbine failure blade failure at his Conisholme wind power station in 2009 might have been due to a UFO: "It was Mr Vince's willingness to consider paranormal explanations that drew attention to the UFO theories, and he told the Telegraph he was disappointed by the results [of the tests which showed that bolts attaching the blades had failed]."

Little comfort to people who live close to massive turbines with 40 to 60m long blades; the latest 61.5m blades now being built weigh nearly 18 tonnes. Broken blades, or pieces thereof, have travelled hundreds of metres in many previous blade failures.

As most people with any knowledge of the wind industry know, it is never UFO's, little green men or sabotage by low-flying NIMBY's on broomsticks which are responsible for the frequent failure of turbine blades and the occasional collapse of towers. It is the more mundane story of poor design, defective construction, material failure, lightning strike and poor maintenance (permutate any combination).”

“Glory hallelujah, that's a start. Many don't like the looks, others don't like the noise, birds don't like the blades, I hate paying for them, they substitute NO conventional power source, and every indication is that they don't even save the fuel that corresponds to the fictitious kWhrs they get paid for. Good riddance.”

“Witchcraft.”

“Bet it was Doctor Who with his sonic screwdriver !!”

“More likely to be cattle eating nuts”

“i've heard it was the local sheep eating the bolts”