14 SEPTEMBER 2002, Page 33

Kyoto's useless targets

From Mrs Elizabeth Morley

Sir: No doubt Andrew Kenny (`The green Gestapo', 7 September) meant the remark, 'Wind is strictly for the coons (and some backward country folk in Wales)' to encapsulate what he saw as the 'condescending contempt' of the likes of Greenpeace bringing windmills to starving Africa.

I wonder, though, if Mr Kenny is aware that 'condescending contempt' is shown not only by the 'green Gestapo' but by our elected government as well. Fast running out of 'backward country folk in Wales' on whom to foist these 'disastrously expensive and unsuitable' turbines, it is now targeting 'backward country folk in England' in its rush to meet the entirely useless Kyoto targets in renewable energy.

Elizabeth Morley

Pontarfynach, Ceredigion, Wales