After a long run of dominance in British politics, the Conservative Party was swept out of power last week by the liberal Labour Party. The Tories weren’t really taken by surprise because there had been plenty of unrest in the country (as with most of the rest of the world) and they had been sliding in the polls. The liberals wasted no time before starting to “fix” things that the conservatives had put in place. One of the first policies to go was a ban on onshore wind turbines. Except it really wasn’t a ban on wind turbines. That’s just how the Labour Party wants to portray it because they’re promising to save the planet or whatever. The end result will be the same, however. Construction on new wind turbines should be kicking off as soon as all of the appropriate forms have been submitted. (The Guardian)
The effective ban on onshore windfarms has been dropped by the newly…
