Wind energy investment must stop

There is a groundswell of anxiety about pylons and wind turbines in the country and many are

increasingly fearful, unhappy or angry at yet another announcement that some foreign company is intending to build a number of huge turbines in what has previously been seen as unspoilt and inviolable local landscape.

Essential reading for those who doubt if the Government has been and is putting in place a sustainable, affordable, secure electricity system is the submission by the Irish Academy of Engineers to the energy green paper.