These 400 ft monsters, with their roadways and massive foundations will lay waste to an area of outstanding beauty designated a "Site of Importance for Nature Conservation".

The energy sums do not add up. All of the windfarms in the UK produce just 00.7% of our energy needs.

Our bird life will die out or leave, the biologically important hilltop peat bog will suffer depredation and our mammals will be driven away by the deep vibration.

At twice the size of Nelson's Column each turbine will need vast foundations deep into the peat to reach bedrock. That and the continuing vibration will release methane in substantial quantities.

The developer side stepped assessing the full impact of low frequency vibration in the impact statement.

There has been no prior public consultation on contentious project.

Windfarms are stop gap technology which should be placed in areas where they cause least, not most, ecological damage.

Hotels, campsites, restaurants, pubs and shops make a living from tourists and day trippers who come to this area formally acknowledged to be a "Special Landscape Area".  Tourists do not revisit areas disfigured by these monstrosities.

Of the three areas studied, this one was selected for no more reason than the financial convenience of the developer. It need not be here.

Because a project is labelled green does not make it so, nor does it make it good or right.

£20,000,000, two thirds of the project cost goes to the foriegn builder of the turbines, £10,000,000 goes to the developer's parent company who just happen to be a heavy plant and construction business. The contribution forecast for the local economy is just four jobs.

The tide of informed opinion is turning, recognising the underperformance and waste of these machines.

Across Europe the race to install wind turbines is being  seen for what it is: A commercial response to poorly thoughtout government policies allowing businesses to exploit countryside for gain