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hatrack

(59,578 posts)
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 08:52 AM Dec 2014

David Cameron: "Enough Is Enough" On Wind Farms, It's Time To Show Vision And Frack, Frack, Frack

People are “fed up with so many wind farms being built”, Prime Minister David Cameron told the House of Commons Liaison Committee yesterday, saying “enough is enough”. The prime minister called for an end to onshore wind subsidies, saying that Britain does not need any more subsidised turbines.

The renewable energy source is now capable of providing 10 per cent of the country’s energy and “that is enough, in my view”, Cameron told MPs.

Cameron’s remarks appear completely at odds with public opinion. The latest polling by the government's own Department of Energy and Climate Change confirms 67 per cent of people support onshore wind.

His comments also represent a remarkable u-turn just four months ahead of the general election when compared to his 2010 election pledge to be the “greenest government ever”. “Nowhere are long-term decisions more needed than actually in the fields of energy and climate change and environment,” he said just days after being elected prime minister, promising that the environment was a top priority: “I mean that from the bottom of my heart.”

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http://www.desmog.uk/2014/12/17/david-cameron-people-are-fed-wind-farms-and-fracking-should-get-going

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David Cameron: "Enough Is Enough" On Wind Farms, It's Time To Show Vision And Frack, Frack, Frack (Original Post) hatrack Dec 2014 OP
Maybe because green energy is so "continental"? DetlefK Dec 2014 #1
I wonder how much SamKnause Dec 2014 #2
FUCKING BASTARD! Prophet 451 Dec 2014 #3
Tony Abbott w. more hair and marginally more aceptable table manners hatrack Dec 2014 #4
Fracking will be a shock when all the traffic and chemicals destroy the beautiful countryside. Frustratedlady Dec 2014 #5
+1,000 freshwest Dec 2014 #6
The bottom of his heart is filled with money. As are his pockets and his ass. djean111 Dec 2014 #7
YES! postulater Dec 2014 #8
lucky we all have David to tell us how much is enough phantom power Dec 2014 #9
get natural.gas from Russia or the UK, take your pick ...nt quadrature Dec 2014 #10
He's trying to get the Tory votes that are slipping away to UKIP, the British Tea Party equivalent muriel_volestrangler Dec 2014 #11

Prophet 451

(9,796 posts)
3. FUCKING BASTARD!
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 09:00 AM
Dec 2014

Sorry, didn't mean to shout. It's a nervous tic whenever that monster's name is mentioned.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
5. Fracking will be a shock when all the traffic and chemicals destroy the beautiful countryside.
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 09:08 AM
Dec 2014

Shame on him.

 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
7. The bottom of his heart is filled with money. As are his pockets and his ass.
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 09:20 AM
Dec 2014

Cream is not the only thing that rises to the top. Oh, and campaign blather - who the fuck believes that stuff nowadays?

muriel_volestrangler

(101,271 posts)
11. He's trying to get the Tory votes that are slipping away to UKIP, the British Tea Party equivalent
Sat Dec 20, 2014, 06:57 AM
Dec 2014

2 Tory MPs just defected to UKIP, and resigned their seats to force a re-election running as UKIP candidates, and they won. SO the Conservatives are now really worried about their votes leaking to UKIP; and one thing UKIP has really pushed hard is that 'wind turbines are awful'. UKIP are basically climate change deniers (the loony Christopher Monckton was their spokesman on it at one stage); half of the election leaflet I got from their candidate for a county election was about stopping a few turbines about 20 miles outside the seat (the other half was fearmongering about eastern European immigrants taking jobs and not working but taking welfare).

So Cameron is trying to nick some policies that appeal to the kind of person that finds the Conservatives a bit too liberal. Hence the U turn.

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