What is your Vision for the Future of Our Land David?
Posted by Lizabeth on Friday, 16 March 2007 19:35:29
Miliband's Vision for the Future of the Land
I welcome David Miliband's reent comment, that 'zero-carbon homes are needed' but with the current activity in the North East I worry about the comment ‘recognising that new wind-farms will be needed'
Location is all-important and the way renwewables are subsidised. Minimum targets can only exacerbate the cumulative impact and there is the question of whether wind farms are actually reducing CO2 emissions as expected.
Therefore may I make two points?
Firstly. Margaret Beckett assured us during the Barningham Campaign, fought as a landscape protection issue, that the Government was committed to protecting the landscape against inappropriate wind energy developments.
Secondly, e-on have some revealing facts on fluctuating wind output and subsidies (web links below)
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Miliband, The Land, Wind turbines, Barningham Campaign