[garinda]

Aesthetics are of course subjective, and we all like, and dislike, different things.

So we'll have to agree to disagree.

I am yet to see a wind farm that I find pleasing on the eye, even in Burnley!

In a natural environment, any man made structure 130 meters tall, and with a blade span of 122 meters, I find jarring, and ugly.

I'd find it equally unbalanced, and out of scale, if they were to build a 30 storey tower block on Blackburn Road, surrounded by mainly two storey houses.

As for costs. We may have 12,500 miles of coast line, but the land it surrounds is some of the most expensive real estate in the world.

It was economically viable to mine oil and gas from the North Sea, sustainable energy sources, from wind or tidal movement, will be relatively low. There'll be no need to pay individuals the millions of pounds in subsidies, that are currently being paid to land owners now.

I also think it's a national disgrace that we haven't invested heavily enough in renewable energy sources, and it is foreign companies that are coming to Britain to harvest the wind's power...and to make extraordinary, long term profits.