THE British countryside may finally be destroyed by the compromising effect of wind farms, claimed the Dartmoor Preservation Association this week. In a message to the DPA London Group, the association?s chief executive John Bainbridge said: ?Wind farms are the greatest single threat to the beauty of the British countryside. ?Our landscape, which has evolved over thousands of years, will finally be industrialised and wrecked by these monstrous intrusions. ?Once they are in place, developers will wade in and wreak havoc, saying that what they do won?t matter as the countryside is already compromised.? In his message to London group members, Mr Bainbridge said: ?It is sickening to watch these wind farm industrialists claiming that they are benevolently building wind farms to end global warming. ?The truth is that wind farming is a highly profitable big business. The directors of these companies ? who rarely live anywhere near their wind farms ? stand to make a lot of money, a fair chunk of it taxpayers? money through subsidy. ?You can plaster Britain with wind farms and it will have a quite negligible effect on global warming.? Mr Bainbridge said politicians and planners should now stand up and be counted in the battle against wind farms. ?They must represent the majority opinion of the public and not be stooges for big business. The British landscape as we know and love it will not exist in five years unless this industrialisation is halted,? he said.
