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Related: About this forumDavid 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 countrys energy and that is enough, in my view, Cameron told MPs.
Camerons 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
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)SamKnause
(13,088 posts)he was paid, or what he was promised for his U-turn ???????????
Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)Sorry, didn't mean to shout. It's a nervous tic whenever that monster's name is mentioned.
hatrack
(59,578 posts).
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Shame on him.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)djean111
(14,255 posts)Cream is not the only thing that rises to the top. Oh, and campaign blather - who the fuck believes that stuff nowadays?
postulater
(5,075 posts)And who needs plumbing? Let's poop in our rivers.
And let's eat our seed corn.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)quadrature
(2,049 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,271 posts)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.