Karen Walsh: Don’t rush into wind-farming

A letter arrives in the post from a wind-farm development company, proposing to erect a windfarm on your lands.

A few days later, a smartly dressed representative from the company approaches you, and he promises you the sum of €5,000 to sign an Option Agreement for five years.

After that, he will give you €18,000 for every wind turbine that is erected on your land.