The Guardian published a very interesting map online yesterday, that shows every windfarm in the UK that has been built or has planning consent, or is under construction.
Overlaid on the map is the constituencies of MPs who oppose windfarms. It's surely just coincidence that large swathes of these constituencies don't have any windfarms on them, isn't it?
There was a rather cheeky attempt at a land grab over the weekend, when Chris Huhne resigned as Energy and Climate Change Secretary. No sooner was his bum off the seat than a group of Tory MPs were urging the Prime Minister to change the planning rules for windfarms, to make it easier to block them.
While I don't think we should grant planning consent to every windfarm without looking at them and the environment they will stand in, I do think that planning should have a bias in favour of the windfarm.
After all, the landscape that we're trying to protect won't look like it does know if we don't get a handle on climate change.
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