Wind turbines a danger to flying

The Member of Parliament for Shropshire has cautioned that the lives of young pilots based in his constituency could be put at risk if the proposed wind farm for the area is granted approval.
Owen Paterson, the Member of Parliament for Shropshire, has sent a letter to Des Browne, the defence secretary asking him to join the opposition to the planned wind energy project at Norton-in-Hales close to Market Drayton.

In the correspondence to the defense secretary, Mr. Owen Paterson said that the lives of young pilots based at Royal Airforce Shawbury could be put in danger by the wind energy project. He observed that the area was already challenging to the young pilots when it came to navigating in the air.

The Member of Parliament for Shropshire has also sent a fourteen-page letter to North Shropshire District Council’s chief executive, Nicola Yates, as a formal objection to the proposal to develop the wind energy project which will comprise of 7 turbines.

Mr. Owen Paterson has listed a number of reasons why he believes the wind farm should not be granted consent as well as the effects he thinks the planned wind energy project will have on the young trainee pilots at the Royal Airforce at Shawbury.

The Member of Parliament for Shropshire is quoted as acknowledging that it was quite unlike him to write a letter of that nature to North Shropshire District Council and attributed it to the reason that he felt strongly that planning authorities such as the North Shropshire District Council were being subjected to unacceptable pressure by the Government so that it could force through renewable energy policy.

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