British MP’s Form All Party Group To Stop Wind Farms

The opposition to wind farms in Britain is growing steadily, from just local groups opposed to the building of bird choppers all way to an all party group of MP’s opposed to wind farms.

At last Westminster has caught up with public opinion that wind farms are heavily subsidised, inefficient, expensive and they destroy landscapes.

In the scramble to meet Chris Huhne’s desire for 32,000 wind turbines Huhne’s Follies all objections to wind farms are trampled flat, even when it is acknowledged the wind farms kill protected birds and destroy sights of natural beauty, or historical significance.

A NEW cross-party campaign group is to be set up in Westminster to demand the Government drops its support for thousands more wind farms. Backbench MPs from all parties will brand heavily subsidised onshore wind farms inefficient, expensive and a major blight on the landscape. They will urge Ministers to re-think a policy which will add £280 to the annual energy bill of hard-pressed homeowners by 2020.

Tory Chris Heaton-Harris, Daventry MP, is the driving force behind the new parliamentary pressure group.

He said: “Ministers need to look at this policy again. It is an inefficient technology, it adds to the bills of consumers, it harms the balance of the National Grid, it is the wrong renew­able for the UK. We need a change of policy.” Britain is the only country in the world to have signed up to cut CO2 emissions by 2050. The pledge, enshrined in the Climate Change Act, requires a major expansion of wind farm development bankrolled by taxpayer subsidies.

Official figures from the Department for Energy and Climate Change suggest up to 32,000 more wind turbines could be erected in the next 20 years, of which 6,000 would be onshore sites.

At present, there are about 3,000 onshore wind turbines with a few hundred off shore. They generate less than two per cent of the nation’s power and are frequently brought to a standstill by too cold or too windy conditions.

MPs have grown alarmed by a trend for onshore wind farm applications to be approved on appeal because of Mr Huhne’s target, even when inspectors concede they will be a blight.

Nothing stands in the way of the Green zealots and their renewable energy crusade, even protected bird species are justifiable collateral damage, as was amply demonstrated by the RSPB with this statement “Any threat has to be weighed against the national imperative to develop green energy sources“.

Nothing can stop the Green steamroller, once it was politically expedient to represent endangered species, how times have changed.

In the Lords last week, Lord Naseby, patron of the Naseby Battlefield Project, urged Communities Secretary Eric Pickles to call in the decision, which he said would devastate the view of the Civil War battlefield.

“We do not have the funds to challenge in the High Court. However, the Secretary of State has the right to call it in at any point,” he said.

Each year thousands of tourists visit the site of the 1645 battle in which Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army destroyed the forces of King Charles I.

It was a turning point in British history, and the site was heralded as “the birthplace of democracy in England” by Lord Peter Brooke of Sutton Mandeville.

The birthplace of English democracy counts for nothing to Europhile Huhne,  and even less to the Green environmentalists, nothing must stop the progress of returning to the Green Agrarian society.