According to figures calculated by Germany’s Öko-Institut, these are the respective CO2 emissions from different forms of energy.

Coal: 1,153 grammes of CO2 per kilowatt hour

Gas: 428 grammes of CO2 per kilowatt hour

Nuclear: 32 grammes of CO2 per kilowatt hour

Wind: 24 grammes of CO2 per kilowatt hour

In addition, the Öko-Institut found that building and running nuclear power stations creates more carbon dioxide than manufacturing and setting up wind turbines or manufacturing and laying solar panels.

If we are to avert dangerous climate change, we need -as a rich country- to set the lead for the world to follow, and radically cut our carbon emissions.

As an opponent of carbon-pumping COAL and dirty, dangerous and expensive NUCLEAR, I see wind farms as a VITAL component of our energy mix. Wind power has to be the way forward if we, as a society, want our children and grandchildren to be able to afford the future.

Setting up wind farms also brings the extra benefit of creating MORE JOBS than coal or nuclear.

Should we not be embracing solutions to the looming problems of climate change and rising energy prices, which CREATE MORE EMPLOYMENT than the tried and failed solutions of coal and nuclear?

In the absence of any general debate in Shropshire about the future of energy supply in this country, it would be great if those protesting could join this debate and say which form of energy they ARE in favour of.

Climate change is already killing 150,000 people a year worldwide according to the WHO, and I see this as much as a moral issue as a political issue.

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