MRS CLARKE's letter made interesting reading and I was particularly interested in her use of figures.

First of all we are told these are not large turbines. They are only 285 feet high and the tallest structures between Gloucester Cathedral and the Severn Bridge.

Then, although she is proposing to put up four turbines in a line down the estuary this is not a wind farm. It is a set of single turbines. So if there are four cows in a field they are not a herd? If we follow the Resilience argument and we ask the cows to stand far enough apart, they are four single cows, apparently not a herd.

To save the council effort in considering these cows – or, sorry, turbines – she is going to put in four applications rather than one for a wind farm. I can't see the economy there.

The turbine generator imported from Germany will create more jobs here than in Germany? I suppose it will need a lot of people to carry it across the field.

The community buy off, half a million pounds, is dependent on performance and may come slowly over 25 years if everything works out and the turbine whizzes around but the community cost is a hit on a tourist economy worth £37 million a year, loss of house value and a reduction in rate income for the council.

It is claimed that more people supported the Alvington Court turbine than the St Briavels turbine. However, far more real residents of the villages of Aylburton and Alvington opposed the application than supported it.

The parish councils of Alvington and Aylburton oppose the application, but according to statements by Resilience PLC they are unrepresentative. They get elected but doesn't that count?

I think I did a different sort of maths to Mrs Clarke at school and can't count things the way she does. My education was probably not as sophisticated and far too simple, but I think I will go on being sceptical about the benefits of wind turbines, without fear of being prosecuted!

– Alan Preest, Lydney north.