PETER Nuttall (Letters, November 26) is tilting at various windmills in his letter.
He doesn’t believe that local farmers need to diversify into renewable energy in order to survive. Just how long does he think they can continue selling milk at 3p per litre below production costs, a price forced on them by supply-chain bullying tactics?
How long does he expect such an enterprise to survive, running a capital intensive business that was being done down by over-powerful market players?
Can I suggest that, at the very least, Mr Nuttall should stop “farmer bashing” and throw his weight behind the Farmers For Action campaign for fair milk prices.
Even better, he could encourage local landowners to put forward sustainable power schemes which offer local people a chance to buy into such schemes - and thus share in the reasonable, and not excessive, profits.
He is very critical of his community council and planning authority. The main basis for that seems to be that they do not agree with him.
However, they have to balance opposing arguments and determine an application based on the strength of those arguments.
DAVID NOCKELS
Dale
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