A selection of articles on the wind debate from the national press.
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"The government’s new emissions target will despoil the countryside, rob the poor – and enrich landowners like me"
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"Too much faith – and subsidy – is ploughed into wind power when there are alternatives to butchering Britain."
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"Are the turbines outside your window yet? Well it won’t be long now. It’s a full-on invasion. When did wind become big business? Is it the only option?"
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The launch of Spear's Save Britain's Historic Landscape Campaign
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"Middle England feels betrayed by the coalition’s shake-up of planning rules – the biggest since the 1930s."
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"The arguments for wind farms just became obsolete.We're entering an era when gas will be cheap, plentiful - and green."
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"The government is putting wind farms and housing before heritage."
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A review of the impact of turbines on wildlife
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Griff Rhys Jones on his crusade to stop wind farms and solar panels wrecking his favourite landscapes.
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Wind farms are being given around £30million a year in compensation to switch off or slow down their turbines because nearly half the electricity they make is not needed.
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"The National Grid's latest plan is taking off into the weirdest scheme yet, thanks to our politicians’ obsession with wind turbines."
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"Some of England’s most beautiful countryside, including its 10 national parks, faces the threat of “vandalism” by developers taking advantage of the Government’s drive for economic growth..."
