IT seems hard to believe that West Devon Council has turned down an application for a local wind farm at Lamerton given the threat that climate change is posing to us and our children. In addition to this, sources of energy are set to become scarcer and more expensive as time goes by. There are no technologies in the pipeline that will come anywhere near replacing fossil fuels as a source of energy and indeed the only really long lasting sources will be water, wind, wave and sun. We have to invest in alternative technologies while we still have some of the financial wealth the fossil fuel has created in order to try to avoid what could prove a very painful future. To refuse permission for wind turbines in this area shows that the council have not really put their thinking hat on as far as responsibility for the future is concerned. It?s not too late for them to change their minds. Dr Colin Bannon Stokehill Cottage, Crapstone