monitoring equipment located on the site of the proposed wind farm was vandalised last week. The damage to the meteorological mast, which measures wind conditions on the site, included the cutting of a number of wires, the disconnecting of plugs and holes made in the equipment. Renewable Energy Systems have expressed concern. Project manager Rachel Ruffle said: ?People opposing the wind farm have every right to make their views heard and we think it is a healthy thing for developments to be questioned. ?But we are very concerned about this act of vandalism and the farmer is shocked and upset that someone has trespassed onto his farmland to carry it out.? But the action was criticised by Den Brook Valley Action Group which said it did not know who had committed it, and failed to understand what it could achieve. Farmer Martyn Tucker, of Crooke Burnell Farm, said: ?The vandalism has shocked me. The thought of someone crossing not just my farm, but another farm, and doing this kind of damage, is very upsetting. ?We have an opportunity to generate clean, green energy here ? something that will be of benefit to the local community.?
