LIKE me, many readers must be wondering how the now “regular contributors” from Friends of the Earth, Agenda 21, Climate Reality Project and so on have suddenly become such experts in the science of Wind Farm photography. They argue eloquently about the superiority of the 2006 Scottish National Heritage standards over the 2012 Highland Council standards etc etc, leaving most of us in the dark.

While it is pleasing to see that they have finally woken up and understood that the visual impact of the 200-odd giant turbines in Navitus Bay’s proposals could have a major effect on our coastline, it is disappointing that their political dogma still prevents them from acknowledging the one thing that all the studies agree on: that the most effective way of understanding how a wind farm will look is from visual “cues” or “comparators”.

In Bournemouth’s case, we have two obvious comparators seen from the beach: the Isle of Wight and Old Harry Rocks. Bournemouth council, amongst others, has been asking the wind farm’s Dutch developers to produce photomontages comparing the proposed wind farm with these two landmarks for two years now.

Yet the developers still refuse to do so. Might that possibly be because people might be able to see the truth – that the proposed wind farm will dwarf both these icons?

CLLR MIKE GREENE, Central Ward, Bournemouth Borough Council