We had an issue near where I lived in Suffolk when I was based in the UK. A farmer leased land to one of the energy speculators involved in windfarms and they intended to put up half a dozen or so within 200m of some houses. The Flying hazard argument was discounted early on. In the end it was noise and intrusion that won the day. To those who ask what the problem is, I quite like seeing the windmills here in France but that's because they are located on hills far away from people or next to Motorways. Up close, they are big b*****s and they make quite a lot of noise. If they are so efficient, I'd say use oil taxation to build more giant farms off the coast where no one is going to be worried about it...apart from the environmental effect on the lesser spotted sprat of course.