Tory windfarm revolt
Feb 4, 2012
Bishop Hill in Economics, Energy: wind

According to the Telegraph, around a hundred Tory MPs have demanded that subsidies to onshore windfarms be dramatically reduced.

A total of 101 Tory MPs have written to the Prime Minister demanding that the £400 million-a-year subsidies paid to the “inefficient” onshore wind turbine industry are “dramatically cut”.

The backbenchers, joined by some MPs from other parties, have also called on Mr Cameron to tighten up planning laws so local people have a better chance of stopping new farms being developed and protecting the countryside.

H/T Jiminy Cricket.

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