Wind Turbines

Wind Turbines (Lincolnshire)

Stephen Phillips MP asks The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government:

'What representations he has received on the cumulative visual impact of proposed wind turbines in Lincolnshire.'

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2014-01-20a.3.6&s=speaker%3A24836#g3.7

I did try and search for additional articles to supplement today's blog, but these were the only ones to emerge from the British press over the last couple of days.

EU’s ‘ridiculous’ green energy plan to push up Britain’s bills

'BRITONS face soaring bills and forests of unsightly wind turbines under an EU masterplan to boost expensive green energy, critics warned yesterday.'

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/455525/EU-s-ridiculous-green-energy-plan-to-push-up-Britain-s-bills

English wind is too slow for turbines

'England, unlike Scotland, isn't windy enough for wind farms.'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/10580601/English-wind-is-too-slow-for-turbines.html

Renewable energy targets are bad policy. Here are five reasons to prove it

'A green, competitive Europe doesn’t need them and shouldn’t have them.'

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/renewable-energy-targets-are-bad-policy-here-are-five-reasons-to-prove-it-9078096.html

EU admits it has no power to enforce its 'binding' 2030 renewable energy targets

'The EU’s energy policy was thrown into disarray today after a senior official admitted that the bloc had no power to enforce the "binding" target it had just proposed, to generate 27 per cent of its power from renewable sources by 2030.'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/eu-admits-it-has-no-power-to-enforce-its-binding-2030-renewable-energy-targets-9078390.html