Wind farms 'an Irish solution to British problem'

Opposition to wind farms in Britain is “the real reason” behind the plan to locate more than 2,000 turbines in the midlands, with the power they produce being exported across the Irish Sea, according to opponents. 

 Andrew Duncan, spokesman for the Lakelands Wind Information Group in Co Westmeath, said the British government “appears to be delighted that Irish people seem less aware of the noise and visual pollution associated with wind turbines [and] don’t actually understand the scale of them”.

[Irish Times]