Did you hear about the Welsh landowner who decided he didn’t – after all – want to have a wind turbine on his property?

Huw Jones stood to make £42,000 a year from hosting the 67 metre turbine on his land in Cardigan. Gosh, what could possibly have persuaded him to forgo this easy money?

Well, Awel Deg/Cardigan Fair Wind, the local wind developer, had a pretty good idea:

“We entirely understand Huw’s decision to withdraw in the light of the huge pressure he and his family has been under in recent weeks.”

What the developer seems to be suggesting is that poor Huw was bullied by his neighbours into changing his mind. And if so, I say good for the “bullies.”

When the democratic process has failed us as badly as it has with wind farms, what option do threatened local communities have other than to take matters into…