Windfarms are not so different

SIR, – Fracking is in the news again with a welcome blast in your pages at the hypocrisy of the Scottish Government’s policy. Friends of the Earth are similarly hypocritical since nearly everything they say about fracking – which they hate – can be applied to windfarms, which they love. Is the hysteria around fracking justified? Probably not.

FoE list against fracking suffering of communities, livelihoods destroyed, irreparable damage to the environment, resultant ill health – these all apply to windfarms. Communities call for a ban on windfarms and are ignored. Are gagging orders against children over fracking any worse than the government-approved, and wind industry-subsidised, brainwashing of children in our schools? Children who don't agree have to be very strong to withstand the pressure.

“Green” followers protest that fracking may pollute water supplies but have no objection to the windfarms that actually do it. Fracking does not kill thousands of birds and bats annually, nor does it occupy vast areas of land.

Climate change? No one has yet proved that windfarms reduce carbon emissions, taking everything into consideration.

The government has imposed a moratorium on fracking pending a full investigation but refuses the same for windfarms. Why for one and not the other?

Brenda Herrick, Sandmill, Harbour Road,

Castletown.