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Media Isle of Man had the honour of being part of Energy Sustainability Centre's recent 'Roundtable' session, organised by MMC and hosted by Capital International Group.

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00:00Anthony, I'm going to hark back straight, all the way back to the start of the conversation.

00:05You said something really interesting. When you travel on the ferry, you see the turbines,

00:10you don't see them yet, and you're wondering, so why? As a journalist, as an editor of a book in Wales,

00:15where we've had a lot of wind farms, there's been company-wide complaints seeing,

00:20it's almost like, yeah, great, all for making the country our nation,

00:25an environmentally stable nation, I just don't want to have a look at it when I'm looking out onto the beach.

00:32Can you articulate more to what you're thinking, sort of why you think that's important?

00:37I think that, I'm sure we all got on a ferry however many years ago when they first started going up,

00:44and I can't quantify that. I think what's happening, I remember there being a big debate around where the ferry was going to go

00:52and how it was going to get through and so on and so forth.

00:56What you realise today is that the wind farms of the north of the UK are there, they're substantial,

01:05they're actually very geometric, they create a different environment than we had previously.

01:15And I think that as a community, you can't help but get used to it, it is what it is.

01:21And so I think it's a natural extension that we will see more rather than less,

01:29and it's very evident that as an island we don't have anything at the moment,

01:37and I don't think there's anything wrong with creating the right project in Maxwaters.

01:46Whether that extends to being onshore as well as offshore, I'm sure that just elevates the debate even further.

01:52But I think when you look out into the Irish Sea, I don't think it makes any difference

02:00whether you're going away to the UK or coming back to the Isle of Man and there's an offshore wind farm.

02:06That is just the 21st century in which we live in today.

02:10And I think as an individual and as a population, the majority of people have moved on,

02:17and therefore it's not the contentious thing that it probably once was.

ESC 9 - The look of wind turbines

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