Weirdly, a lot of sympathy here
“Wales has enough low-carbon energy already. The power from this wind farm will all be going to England, the money will go to the company and we will get nothing. And then the English wonder why we Welsh get stroppy.”
The arguments are not just about landscapes. Wind farm construction means drilling massive holes in the ground to install concrete foundations. It also means laying cables and building sub-stations. Usually a brand new road is needed too – so the construction phase often has huge impacts.
Once built, wind turbines can cause further disruption through “flicker” – caused by sunlight reflected off moving blades – and low level vibrations transmitted in the air or ground. Such prospects mean Welsh planning meetings have become heated or even aggressive.
An Englishman being sympathetic to the Welsh, yes, I know, see that aerial porcine?
However, over the years I’ve lived around the corner from an oil well and just over the slope from some windmills. And the windmills were definitively the more intrusive. Get up close to them and the noise is simply inescapable.