Time to stand up and be counted ; Letters

I WAS brought up in the glorious countryside south of the PreseliHills, where as children we wandered freely over hill and valley.

I never dreamt that one day our beautiful Welsh landscapes wouldbe turned into massed industrial sites bristling with giganticturbines that, like prison bars, sentenced us all to a life ofvisual misery.

Freedom is a precious thing, as some of your correspondents haveimplied, and when it is taken away by governments more interested inmaking vast tax profits in the name of fighting dubious climatechange claims, it is time to stand up and challenge their duplicityand total lack of care for the poor and elderly where they have topay energy bills inflated by their dubious claims; their lack ofinterest in the tourist economy of rural Wales, and their lack ofresponsibility for the well-being of so many country-dwellers.

Unless we all stand up for these vital needs we will becometotally impoverished second-class citizens.

Other countries are beginning to react against this tide of wind-energy hysteria, including Denmark, a country often quoted as "beingat the forefront of wind energy".

We in Wales have much more to lose than Denmark.

David Bellamy Maesmawr, Aberedw, Powys