Christopher Booker has picked up on the suggestion by Transport Secretary Phillip Hammond that onshore wind pays its way, an extraordinary error that was picked up BH readers earlier in the week. Booker is similarly unimpressed.
Talking on the BBC last week about wind turbines, which are at the centre of our Government’s energy policy, the Transport Secretary, Philip Hammond, said “onshore wind doesn’t need subsidy any more, onshore wind can pay its way”. This was so laughably untrue that one has to wonder whether Mr Hammond was being deliberately untruthful or whether, which is almost worse, he is so ignorant that he actually believed what he said.