IT was very interesting to read your article regarding the ongoing saga of the Den Brook Valley Wind Farm (Courier, November 14).  As your report mentioned, RES are being "very generous" in the allowance they are making to people living within 2.5km of the development.  This amount (£108 off a yearly electricity bill) works out to around £2 per week.  I am sure Mr Hulme, a local resident whose property is near to the turbines, and who has spent quite a few £2's in trying to preserve some sort of quality of life and enjoyment of his own property, is absolutely ecstatic about this!  Other residents in the surrounding area must also be over the moon to have read this report.  So the compensation for having nine huge turbines erected in a beautiful valley in full view of the west Dartmoor tors and set to create who knows what level of noise, (it seems that RES don't really know this yet until the turbines are built) is £2 per week.  What a joke! RES have over-estimated the expected energy output for this wind farm in the past, so by the time this obnoxious and ill-designed development is completed, it would not be surprising to find that this "generous" electricity allowance together with the promised community payments, had been overstated by RES and will actually be reduced or non-existent. Mr Hulme (and other nearby residents) would be better off if a three-lane motorway had been planned to be built near to their property when some sort of Government compensation or compulsory purchase may be offered. It's a mad world we are living in! I do appreciate that not everyone hates wind turbines, but I suspect these supporters do not live in close proximity to them. Name and address supplied