YOUR front page article 'We don't want them here' (September 22) did not get over the scale of these turbines and the impact on the landscape and village life.

The turbines will be 220ft high, higher than Nelson's column and equivalent to a 20-storey building. They will dominate the landscape from one of the highest points in West Devon. They will be on the same scale and in the same vista as Brentor Church. They will be visible from Dartmoor to Bodmin Moor.

The turbines will dominate the villages of Milton Abbot and Kelly with their many Grade 1 and 2 listed buildings and have a devastating impact on village life. Tourists come to this part of West Devon for its landscape beauty and tranquillity, this proposed development would affect tourism over the whole area from Okehampton to Tavistock.

Although Murex have said they would not put up more turbines on these sites we believe that if this development is allowed to proceed then other companies will put them up. The large subsidies for such turbines mean that landowners can earn up to half a million pounds per turbine over their lifetime. If this development is allowed to proceed there will be many others.

MABRAKE (Milton Abbot, Bradstone, Kelly) Action Group supports the Government policy of reducing CO2 emissions but there are more reliable and less environmentally damaging ways of achieving this with solar, off-shore wind and hydroelectricity. As the Prime Minister recently said 'our countryside is a national treasure' and a landscape such as ours, which has remained largely unchanged for a thousand years, must not be permanently disfigured by this type of development.

I urge everyone to support our campaign against this proposal, irrespective of where you live.

If you wish to do so then please contact us at [email protected]">[email protected] or by post.

Dr Gary Vanstone

Chairman, MABRAKE

Bradstone Coombe

Bradstone

IS it not time that we stop despoiling the countryside around Tavistock, some of the best countryside in England, with wind turbines?

There are many areas of this country, and surrounding sea where there would be few objections raised to turbines, but where a majority of people living in villages in close proximity to a proposed development strongly object then surely we should remain dedicated to preserving our land and heritage rather than trying to follow the Government's misguided and unachievable targets?

I worry that we have been misled about global warming. We are still not back up to the temperatures we had 1,000 years ago, with the infamous `hockey stick` graph of rising temperatures now having been discredited, with the drowning polar bear debacle having been based on the offhand sighting of three dead polar bears, with rising CO2 levels proven not to be causing rising global temperatures and many other details it must be time to put our 'clear thinking' heads back on and chart a steady course for the future, as we always have done.

J M Watson

Milton Abbot