Letter to the Editor below … in response to a recent letter from Jen Ackerman.

Industrial Wind Factories are not “farms.” They are industrial factories that produce a product, relatively inefficiently, that unfortunately also employs almost zero workers during its lifespan.

We don’t need these inefficient factories installed in the middle of the pastoral farmland in the County. A recent letter in this newspaper from Jen Ackerman admonished all of us for deliberately electing a provincial government that cancelled the one wind factory that had been curiously constructed here, despite the fact that one department of the previous government with the authority to do so stated clearly that it should not be built.

Jen Ackerman forgot to acknowledge in her letter that those industrial turbines were installed not just anywhere, but on her property, and that she had a contract with the previous government to overpay her by at least 200 per cent for the useless amount of electricity that would have been generated there, for the next 25 years. Like winning a lottery!

Industrial wind factories were killed here in the County for good reason. They are a Flintstones idea dressed up in modern technology. Let’s leave them dead. And what are all those industrial wind factory supporters doing to help reduce climate change?

Are they driving smaller hybrid vehicles? Are they driving their giant pickup trucks at a lower speed to save fuel? Are they turning off the air conditioning in their house?

Probably not.

Mark Russell

Wellington