Wind Farms My Arse
The UK's one and only wind farm manufacturing plant is to close due to lack of orders, reports the Guardian.
The plant, owned by Vestas, the world's biggest wind energy group, in Newport on the Isle of Wight employs around a not insignificant for the local economy 700 people.
One of the biggest stumbling blocks to building domestic wind farms is the enormous amount of red tape involved in obtaining planning permission, which is an extremely complicated and laborious process, said a Vestas spokesman.
The government's promises to "go green" on energy production look like a lot of hot air when the chips are down it would seem.
I think I might be getting a little bit twitchy right now if I'd invested hundreds of millions of pounds in developing UK biofuel plants that haven't even been fired up yet.
The plant, owned by Vestas, the world's biggest wind energy group, in Newport on the Isle of Wight employs around a not insignificant for the local economy 700 people.
One of the biggest stumbling blocks to building domestic wind farms is the enormous amount of red tape involved in obtaining planning permission, which is an extremely complicated and laborious process, said a Vestas spokesman.
The government's promises to "go green" on energy production look like a lot of hot air when the chips are down it would seem.
I think I might be getting a little bit twitchy right now if I'd invested hundreds of millions of pounds in developing UK biofuel plants that haven't even been fired up yet.
