Wind farms ‘a threat to national security’

[Sweetpea]

Ambitious plans to meet up to a third of Britain’s energy needs from offshore wind farms are in jeopardy because the Ministry of Defence objects that the turbines interfere with its radar.

The MoD has lodged last-minute objections to at least four onshore wind farms in the line of sight of its stations on the east coast because they make it impossible to spot aircraft, The Times has learnt. The same objections are likely to apply to wind turbines in the North Sea, part of the massive renewable energy project announced by John Hutton, the Energy Secretary, barely two months ago. They would be directly in line with the three principal radar defence stations, Brizlee Wood, Saxton Wold and Trimingham on the Northumberland, Yorkshire and Norfolk coasts.

Wind farms ‘a threat to national security’ - Times Online

Oh dear, nobody thought of that did they?

You'd have thought this would have been thought of earlier wouldn't you?

Did you see the Scottish island which has finally got an electricity supply thanks to wind generators? Up to now they've had to rely on having their own generator for each family and not been able to run them 24/7. I can't imagine what it must have been like.

[poppy]

as the MOD are approached at he start of each wind farm proposal and raised no objection. I wonder at how well run the MOD is, surely a basic investigation should have been done long before it ever got to planning.
Let alone getting as far as being built.