Squadron fights wind-farm

The RYA, BMF and every sailor should get behind this campaign. Lobby it, Tweet it, Facebook it, stop it.

To find out more about the proposal and to see full video simulations of the enormity of this proposal go to the independent information source at www.challengenavitus.org.uk.

The current round of public consultation ends on 17 April. Details of how to add your comments to the consultation can be found on the Challenge Navitus website or email directly to info@enecowindoffshore.co.uk, copying in your MP and, if within the affected region, your local councillors, too.

It is highly doubtful if any carbon is actually saved, when you take full account of the carbon that goes into all the materials the works of construction, the likely high levels of maintenance and repair in the hostile marine environment, the need to maintain patrol vessels, similar carbon considerations for the construction and maintenance of the distribution network serving them and the fact they produce only a fraction of the forecast power output. Further carbon costs will be incurred every time a vessel has to deviate around the wind farm.

I do wish people would stop thinking only of themselves when protesting about wind farms. They are a necessity renewable energy today. I really cannot think how it can affect sailing, they will just have to steer round them. We now have to think of the future and not only of today.

Surely that's a busy bit of water not just for sailors, but for fishing and commercial vessels?

Why can't they be built on sandbanks that all boats avoid?
And don't tell me they need strong foundations, as if they can build something down to the bottom of the English Channel then they can easily sink a foundations a long way down through the sands to account for movement.

The Goodwin Sands seem perfect as large enough & near enough to the land for the power supply.

And I won't be sailing over them at any time in the future, so no problem at all.

Please no more windfarms at sea they are a total waste of money and resources. The enviromental impact is out of all proportion to any benifit

why are we subsidising a dutch company £250000000+ per year.how long would it take for these to pay for themselves without subsidies

If you think windfarms are an efficient way of producing energy you need your head examined! They are only efficient when the wind blows at a certain speed - about 50 per cent of the time! After that they are a useless eyesore draining money out of the government (US!) and getting in everyones way.

Why can't it be an English company then it would help (our) economy