Many of the recent letters to your paper that have attacked Albert Powers, the town of Lyme Planning Board, the town of Lyme council and others over their positions on wind power in the town have been baseless, inaccurate and at times bordering on slanderous.

Contrary to many of these opinions that have appeared in your paper and elsewhere, the town as represented by the Town Council and the Planning Board has adopted a wind ordinance that accurately and fairly portrays the desires and positions of a majority of the town's citizens. Mr. Bowers is recognized by those who care to really understand this issue as a person beyond reproach, who has taken a leadership role in attempting to publicize all the facts (pro and con) of this very contentious and divisive issue. In so doing, he has exposed himself to those who see wind farms only through "money tainted glasses."

This includes those who would sacrifice custody of their lands in return for rental payments, and those wind farm developers and their staff to whom no method is deemed unacceptable and who willingly pit neighbor against neighbor by the use of secret endorsement and confidential contracts in their attempt to gain the slightest inroad into a development site. They refuse to even consider let alone accept the fact that there are at least two complex and legitimate sides to this issue.

While wind is a potential alternative source of electricity, you will find that for every upside there are several compelling downsides. If wind is such a tremendous alternate source of energy, then please explain why the country of Denmark, a pioneer nation in the development of wind farms with one of the world's leading concentration of wind-turbines (in excess of 6,000), can still only satisfy an insignificantly small portion of their total electricity needs? It is an amount that is an equally small and insignificant portion of their total wind-power generation capacity, and because the electricity cannot be stored Denmark is forced to sell their surplus production to any country in Europe at any price (substantially less than the cost to produce it).

In the process, the government of Denmark still sends hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies to wind farm operators. Would you be surprised if the ultimate burden of payment for these subsidies falls on everyday Danish citizens?

Please don't let those who would willingly put a windmill on every available acre in the area (and raid our pocket books in the process) rule the day and ruin our heritage in the process.

Charles Wilson

Three Mile bay