One of the many issues not discussed in the Hackney Pravda advert for an Olympics wind turbine on East Marsh is why the turbine is not on the Olympics site. It is an Olympics project, i.e. ODA (Olympics Delivery Authority). The primary reason for building it is to create the illusion that the 2012 games will be Green and to help meet the 25% renewables condition of the IOC (Int. Olym Cmte) award. Rather than debate whether a turbine on East Marsh is a good or bad idea we should be asking why it is not on the Olympic site. If it is to power the Olympics,the closer the better. Remember Hackney lost 10Ha of open space to the Olympics (Arena Field, White Hart Field and part of the east corner of Main Marsh) and will not receive any exchange land. So the very least that could be done is to put the turbine on what was Hackney land and then pay LBH rent for the site. What we are actually being offered is another land grab for the Olympics with the fig leaf that LBH can charge the private energy provider some ground rent. So no I don't want a wind turbine on East Marsh. Instead lets have 3 on the Olympics site, the one at Eton Manor (in Waltham Forest), the one the ODA are trying to export to East Marsh, and another one for good measure! Once we have a wind farm legacy on the Olympics site and compensation for the 10Ha of stolen land, then we can discuss the merits or otherwise of further turbines on other sites.