I HEARD on the news recently that the RSPB has now said it will support wind farms if they are not built in wildlife sensitive areas.

I have had great respect for the RSPB to stand out against wind farms so wonder why it has changed its viewpoint.

Is it because it has now done some sums and found that if you calculate the carbon footprint of a wind turbine it comes out as efficient?

Or that if you calculate the mining of the metal needed, the factory making the turbines, the transport and construction and the connection to the grid, the carbon produced is out-weighed by the carbon saved from the electricity produced over the number of years the turbine is expected to function? I hope so.

Or maybe it talked to the German wildlife organisations. Germany has led the EU with wind power and must have lots of data now on such things.

Or maybe it is because of the draconian legislation that this government has now brought in, where it will put wind farms up anyway, whatever the public opinion.

The RSPB is left with nothing more it can do but try and save what it can.

The point of this letter being that the EU and our parliament should bring in regulations that make companies disclose the carbon footprint of the production, this including a calculation of ore mining as well as factory work.

BARBARA MARK, Little Overton, Ludlow.