SIR – We, the people of Bradford, paid out £689 million in 2011 to buy almost all our energy from outside the district. Yet we could make our own electricity and pay £689 million to ourselves. And what is our major renewable resource? Wind.
Far from being a ‘blot’ (T&A. January 28), wind turbines could regenerate Bradford.
Of course they should not be planted next to the Cow and Calf or the Bronte Parsonage. Turbines should be at a suitable distance, but near, our built-up areas.
We should ourselves part-own suitably sited turbines. If our local firms put up money, and many of us put in small investments, we, the community, would get the benefit, not distant big businesses.
The future lies in our community generating its own electricity. John D Anderson, Bramham Drive, Baildon
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