THE wind farm at Watchfield has sparked much controversy and I am accused by two letter writers of inaccurate information.

I stand by all that I have said, bar one point when I mistakenly stated 9,000 homes could be supplied. I should have stated 9,000 people, equal to the population of Faringdon and Watchfield.

I could respond to refute most of the statements in the letters but see little advantage in wrangling over details of an approved application, in which I rejoice as a small, considered step towards Mr Hunter's quoted statement by the director of Denmark's National Environment Assessment Institute, Bjorn Lomborg.

He urges us to take rational action to make sure our children and grandchildren will stop using fossil fuels because we have provided them with better and cheaper alternatives.

This wind farm is an inexpensive, carbon-emission-free way, not merely a symbolic effort.

Furthermore, every independent survey in the UK has consistently shown that the majority like them.

Global climatic change is recognised by all reputable earth scientists from across the world.

The chief scientific adviser to the Government, Professor Sir David King, has stated climatic change is a greater threat to world security than global terrorism.

Millions face flooding or fresh water shortages, in the UK and overseas. Last year, there were 25,000 extra deaths in central Europe in August, due to the heatwave, following unprecedented floods in the summer of 2002.

According to the scientific journal Nature, the most authoritative, peer-reviewed model predicted that a quarter of all species would be extinct in 50 years due to climate change.

What are you doing Mr Heath and Mr Hunter? You seem to have missed the point. Surely we should be working together to reduce the amount of carbon entering the atmosphere?

This can best be achieved by a diversity of approaches: In individual ways, through community effort, Government schemes, international agreement and oil giants recognising the need for their profit base to change from one of pollution and resource reduction to profit based on being sustainable.

And, yes, Mr Heath, I have done my research and I shall be investing in the co-operative.

NAN PRATT

Swindon College