Cornwall Council to spend £16m on turbines

“TheodoreV is absolutely right, but don't forget Sainsburys at Eastern Green. Councillors were told that if it wasn't approved then the helicopter link to the Scillies would be lost. So they approved it and looked what happened.

Then you get the likes of the local MP acting shocked when the time for shutdown approaches. It was known about for nearly eighteen months!!!

But it's the planners again. They misdirected councillors - most of whom don't know the area and appear clueless - and so we get these **** planning decisions. But never mind all that will end soon when George Osborne's waters down planning regs even further. Then we won't have to worry about 'planning' any more because it won't exist.

Well done the ConDems - you're useless.”

“The British Isles is blessed by a twice-daily tide that has the potential to produce energy at a rate almost unparalleled on the planet, has coal reserves that are still counted in centuries, yet these huge, inefficient, structures continue to blight the landscape.
Something wrong here.”

“St Erth is proof that this organisation disregards its own planning guidelines. Someone in an office somewhere has a bright idea. It gets the backing of the Chief Executive , who gets the cabinet to toe the line. Ignore every rule or voice of opposition. Then when later it is agreed that correct procedure was breached, say once given the planning permission cannot be rescinded. Similar stories in relation to the incinerator, Penzance Harbour, refuse collection, privatisation. We have just had the appalling Hillsborough report. Do public bodies learn NOTHING?”

“So Cornwall Council intend to spend £16 million of taxpayer's money on wind turbines that may or may NOT pay back the initial expenditure to the taxpayers + help pay towards council front-line services!!!!???? Will they get planning permission for these turbines? Is there going to be an independent planning assessment for these turbines or will Cornwall Council be passing their own judgement?”

“Surely roads and houses scar the landscape more. the more houses we have the more of these turbines we will need.”

“Another example, not that any were needed, of the county council interfering in an area where private enterprise should provide the lead body.

What makes these elected buffoons think they can do these things, what skills do they think they have?

The sooner the county council has its teeth pulled, and power taken away from them, the better.”

“Does Julian German really not understand that any profit on wind turbines comes from the feed-in-tariff? The feed-in-tariff in turn is paid by a tax on everyone's electricity bill. So if Cornwall Council is puttting these things up it does not 'benefit' Cornwall in any way. It is, in fact, just another means of taking money out of peoples' pockets.

Living in Penzance I see the monstrous turbine located on the St. Clare campus daily. It seems that half the time it isn't turning at all and the other half it's turning so fast you know the grid cannot cope with all the power being generated so that its output and that of hundreds of other Cornish wind turbines is simply ditched. What a waste of time, money and energy - and they have the nerve to call it 'green'.”

“Appears to me that way Theo, nomenklatura Lavery, marxism for the masses for the benefit of monopoly capitalism”

“Yet more evidence that this appalling organisation is hardly fit for purpose. Not even a majority of elected councillors have any influence apparently. Everything it touches is contaminated by an arrogant disregard of public opinion and common sense. What is required to make it operate not as a soviet style polit-bureau, but a democratic local authority that runs essential services efficiently?”

“No surprises there Olly, we have been saying this ever since the inception of the Unitary.
The vast majority didn't want the anti democratic Fib dem Unitary, the vast majority is seldom wrong.
The Fib dems stitched us up in Cornwall and they are showing their two faced treachery whilst in the coalition.
This is the Cons perfect storm excuse to privatise the lot, greed knows no bounds, they won't stop until they own everything. Be very afraid. Liebour set it up for them, public services with massive debts like PFIs.

As for the wind turbines and ''if all goes according to plan'' (Lol!) they will be sited soon.

I'd love to see one next to the incinerator as a monument to the folly of Julian German's green hypocrisy.”