Letter from the Hutt News, June 2008 

Turbines: give me hard evidence, not opinions

Ken Mosley's viewpoint article ''living in the shadow of the wind turbines" (Hutt News, 22 April) is right up there with your coverage last year about the search for Noah's Ark. Three important points leap from the article. First, despite an open invitation to over 1,000 households in the Ashhurst area to have their say about the Te Apiti windfarm, no more than 2.6% chose to provide any opinion at all. That means that the 32% who reported sleep disturbance actually represents less than 1% of the population of Ashhurst and Woodville. Every other negative' impact was less than 0.5%!