More Yorkshire Post wisdom.

From: David F Chambers, Sladeburn Drive, Northallerton.

RENEWABLE UK complains (Yorkshire Post, November 4) that those who oppose on-shore wind farms are selfishly damaging the economy and not helping the employment situation.The contribution to the grid made by wind-sourced energy is extremely small, painfully expensive and at times an actual embarrassment. An effort to reduce unemployment is in itself obviously commendable, but less so if the jobs created are essentially non-productive and contribute little beyond a profit to the manufacturers and landowners involved in the wind industry, while it lasts.Establishing an effective and secure energy policy is going to be essential to the country's economy, and in this overall objective wind-sourced electricity appears to be all but irrelevant. Renewable UK must surely be aware of this, and if it is meeting opposition it has no right to be appealing to a sense of patriotism on the part of those who raise logical objections.My feeling is that if the coalition felt able to withdraw from the renewables target so rashly entered with the EU, it would be able to play a more honest and constructive part in the future of our energy supplies. But I guess it doesn't and therefore it can't.