Wednesday, November 2, 2011

The Rape of Britain

Wind Farms and the destruction of our environment

The Rape of Britain: Wind farms and the destruction of our environment






October 3, 2011


by Roger Helmer MEP in Straight Talking


Today at the Conservative Party Conference, my Scottish colleague Struan Stevenson MEP launches his new booklet, "The Rape of Britain". It is, as the title suggests, a passionate plea for an urgent reassessment of our manic renewables policies, which propose to generate around 30% of UK electricity from wind by 2020. Bizarrely, the Scottish government has set itself a target not of 30%, but of 100%.

Struan approaches the issue from three directions.

First, as he puts it, "The Financial Scandal". Wind farm subsidies are extraordinarily regressive. Quite simply, they take money from the poor (who pay electricity bills, and and probably find themselves in “fuel poverty”), and give it to the rich.
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