COMMENTING on the proposal to install a wind turbine in Hazel Court, Sharon Wishart is reported as saying "if it affects health that worries me."

What are her grounds for believing that a wind turbine will affect people's health?

When the wind turbine near Escrick was proposed, the objectors claimed that on fine days at certain times of the year and at certain times of day the sun reflected on the blades might cause epileptics who happened to be looking towards the turbine to have fits.

Is this the risk, or has some other far-fetched, convoluted health hazard been dreamed up to justify resisting another positive attempt to reduce global warming?

Reducing the risk to the health and safety of children and wild animals is far more surely achieved by restricting the use of motor cars, mobile phones and chemical pesticides, all of which, incidentally, are also contributors to pollution and global warming.

Those who do not want wind turbines because they find them newfangled and strange should say so directly, rather than invent objections.

Maurice Vassie, Cartmans Cottage, Deighton, York.