Mr Field accused them of 'nimbyism,' citing other eyesores such as TV and radio masts and pylons which they do not 'see,' and caring little for the health effects of coal, oil and nuclear power.

Fair enough, but when the only yardsticks of interest to the wind 'farmer' are enough wind and the best financial return, he is hardly likely to opt for the most reliably windy places Ñ such as rocky, uninhabited coasts when Pendle Hill might be available.

This state of affairs will no doubt continue until the government is pressurised into directing and subsidising the setting up of farms in the most effective locations. On the question of health and sources of energy, your correspondents might like to mull over the announcement to the September Castle Cement Liaison Group that Castle will be looking to burn 'Cemfuel' again, and tyres, in Kiln 7 within the next two months.

This is the kiln which was banned from burning 'Cemfuel' in 1995 because the plumes came to ground, and where Monsanto (the US genetically-engineered food giant) has just installed a 'state-of-the-art' scrubber.

I'm sorry, but given the prospect of a third hazardous toxic waste incinerator in a place where the plumes from the chimneys come down, where no one knows how effective the scrubber will be and where the Director of Public Health can't 'see' any other link to ill-health than deprivation, I think I prefer windfarms.

J D MORTIMER (Mr), Green Drive, Clitheroe.