Wind Watch: Scheme for turbines is a swindle, says Bellamy

World-famous conservationist David Bellamy, who lives in Teesdale, has criticised Npower’s plans for seven wind turbines near Bolam.

Green energy firm Npower Renewables has made early proposals for a “medium-scale” scheme on the western edge of the village.

However, Prof Bellamy, from Hamsterley, said the plan would industrialise the countryside and leave the public footing the bill.

He said: “Wind farms are part of a nationwide swindle that is already costing the consumers a lot of their hard earned cash.”

Prof Bellamy added that a moratorium on the commissioning of wind turbines was long overdue.

Re: Claim: Ice caps are melting so fast that the world’s oceans are rising more than twice as fast as they were in the 1970s | CO2sceptics

[Lord Monckton] For most of the past 10,000 years – most recently in the Roman and medieval warm periods – temperatures were up to 3 Celsius degrees (5.5 Fahrenheit degrees) warmer than the present. Each of the past four interglacial periods was up to 6 Celsius degrees (11 Fahrenheit degrees) warmer than the present. Humankind cannot have been to blame. End of scare.