MUCH of what can be read on the anti-Heslerton wind-farm website is misleading or silly.

How would great-crested newts, badgers and hares would be in danger from wind turbines, for example? Is the idea that they would be leaping up into the path of the blades?

The “unparalleled collection of buried intact prehistoric structures” in the area is given as grounds for refusal.

Do the objectors also campaign against electricity pylons, farm silos, and every other structure that has arrived in the landscape in the last 20,000 years?

Much is made of the cost of decommissioning, and the impact on taxpayers, as if coal mines and power stations don’t cost money to decommission.

Yorkshire folk have a reputation for knowing the value of money.

How is it that these protesters appear to think it better to spend billions of pounds buying energy from Russia and the Middle East instead of investing in making our own energy here in Yorkshire?

Wind-farm objectors are always a small, vociferous minority who refuse to engage with either the challenges or opportunities of our times.

The rest of us recognise it is time we generated clean renewable energy.

Christian Vassie, Blake Court, Wheldrake, York.