Global Warming

UK ENERGY MINISTER SAYS NO MORE ONSHORE WINDMILLS…….

 

Predictable subsidized boondoggle.

Oh, and Obama and al-Gore still hold to the grand delusion that windmills are a part of the answer to the U.S. energy problems. What a waste of the taxpayers’ money.

Indeed, the amount of power they generate is so derisory that, even now, when we have built 3,500 turbines, the average amount of power we get from all of them combined is no more than what we get from a single medium-size, gas-fired power station, built at only fraction of the cost.

Ten years too late, it’s good riddance to wind farms – one of the most dangerous delusions of our age

By CHRISTOPHER BOOKER

PUBLISHED: 00:31 GMT, 31 October 2012 | UPDATED: 08:04 GMT, 31 October 2012

Mr Hayes' diktat only referred to the prevention of wind farms on shore

Energy Minister John Hayes has announced no more wind farms are allowed to be built in the UK

The significance of yesterday’s shock announce-ment by our Energy Minister John Hayes that the Government plans to put a firm limit on the building of any more onshore windfarms is hard to exaggerate.

On the face of it, this promises to be the beginning of an end to one of the greatest and most dangerous political delusions of our time.

For years now, the plan to cover hundreds of square miles of the British countryside with ever more wind turbines has been the centrepiece of Britain’s energy policy — and one supported by all three major political parties.

Back in 2008, when Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced his wish to see the country spend £100 billion on windfarms, the only response from the Tory leader David Cameron was to say that he should have done it sooner.

It was the only way, they all agreed, Britain could meet our commitment to the EU that, by 2020, we must produce nearly a third of our electricity from ‘renewables’ — with  the largest part provided by tens of thousands more  wind turbines.

Yet now, out of the blue, has come this announcement by the Coalition Energy Minister that from now on there is to be a moratorium on building onshore turbines other than those for which consent has already been given.

Bonanza

What made this even more piquant was the fact that Mr Hayes chose to drop  this bombshell just hours before attending a conference in Glasgow staged by  RenewableUK, the professional lobby group for Britain’s wind industry.

These are the very people who for years have been making fortunes out of the greatest public subsidy bonanza of modern times. Now Mr Hayes is to stop their gravy train in  its tracks.

It will give them the  biggest shock of their professional lives.

Mr Hayes’ diktat only referred to the prevention of wind farms on shore, but many turbines are placed out at sea to maximise wind exposure

The ramifications of such a policy U-turn stretch in all directions, not least to Brussels, where our EU colleagues won’t be taken in for a moment by Mr Hayes’s disingenuous claim that Britain doesn’t need more onshore windfarms because we are now on course to meet our ‘renewables’ target without them.

But nowhere will this announcement be greeted with more delirious surprise than in all those hundreds of communities across the land where outraged local protest groups have formed in ever greater numbers to fight the onward march of what they see as the greatest threat to Britain’s countryside for centuries.

Ludicrous

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  1. There are other costs from providing the associated infrastructure, for example
    a massive dam on the Great Glen of Scotland to create a reservoir for pumped storage of energy generated by wind farms
    SSE plans new £800m hydro electric storage scheme in Great Glen: BBC Feb 16, 2012
    which is not universally welcomed.-
    Fury as Scottish councillors back controversial £800m hydro power scheme : Daily Record Oct 31, 2012
    and transmission lines such as this
    Underground cable plan for Beatrice offshore wind farm: BBC Oct 31, 2012

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