{"id":247,"date":"2004-06-02T22:15:58","date_gmt":"2004-06-03T02:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2004-06-02T22:15:58","modified_gmt":"2004-06-03T02:15:58","slug":"my-letter-to-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/02\/my-letter-to-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"My letter to The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/green\/story\/0,9061,1211414,00.html\">An ill wind?<\/a><\/em>, article by John Vidal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDate: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 22:05:44 -0400<br \/>\nTo:  weekly.letters@&#8230;<br \/>\nSubject: An Ill Wind to Dr Bellamy&#8217;s Wallet<\/p>\n<p>Further to John Vidal&#8217;s article on wind energy in the UK, I am astounded  by David Bellamy&#8217;s gall in denouncing wind energy. He must think we have  extremely short memories indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the early 1990s, when I was a neophyte windsmith, I remember seeing a CEGB-sponsored film about wind energy. It was narrated by Dr B., and he was effusing about how wind turbines would be a familiar part  of the future landscape, about how beneficial they are, and all the good  things that mindful wind energy development will bring.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders what caused the good doctor&#8217;s volte-face against green electricity. It would be a shame if such a familiar public face would say anything that it were paid to say. One wonders if David Bellamy now has a backer with an agenda different from that of the old CEGB?<\/p>\n<p>Stewart C. Russell\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re: An ill wind?, article by John Vidal. Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 22:05:44 -0400 To: weekly.letters@&#8230; Subject: An Ill Wind to Dr Bellamy&#8217;s Wallet Further to John Vidal&#8217;s article on wind energy in the UK, I am astounded by David Bellamy&#8217;s gall in denouncing wind energy. He must think we have extremely short memories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[302,620,59],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-wind-things","tag-bellamy","tag-guardian","tag-wind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-3Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}