Windfarms. Why they are a matter of faith for the BBC as Biased BBC’s Alan explains…
“What the papers did say apparently was that 70% of people in the UK love windfarms and would welcome them spreading across the UK…so says the Independent and Roger Harrabin. The BBC launched its own little pro windfarm offensive this morning on the Today programme….strangely all coinciding with the report that the government may cut subsidies to them. The Greens have marshalled their forces and they are on the offensive.
Far from me to doubt the truth of this latest poll….what was the selection process for choosing who to poll? Did they flick through the wind turbine construction applications at the local planning offices….kind of think they might have.
But who am I to doubt it in reality because here is Rob Norris, a spokesman for RenewableUK, the trade association representing the wind industry, to put me right….he said: “This poll is evidence of the true level of support for wind energy in the UK……. the better-informed majority understand the many benefits.”
I’m just ignorant obviously.
Today had Evan Davis interviewing a Lincolnshire County Council representative who was issuing advice that applications for wind turbines would not now have the presumption that they would be acceptable.
Davis wanted to know if he was a sceptic and then asked if centuries ago he would have been opposing church spires in our landscape. Funny how Davis stoops to abuse rather than judging the merits of the explicit argument that the interviewee laid out quite clearly for his actions….never mind how reasonable those were… he must have some agenda or luddite tendency…because windfarms are so wonderful and 70% of people want them.
Thank goodness we had Tim Yeo on the Today programme to further our education……the Planet will burn unless we have these turbines, the price of CO2 will be extortionate if we don’t act now….yes off shore windfarms are too expensive….the answer is vast windfarms on land. I wonder how many windturbines Yeo has on his own land? I’m sure it’s purely for the benefit of the Earth and nothing to do with the bundles of cash that are pushed the landowner’s way to persuade them to be ‘green’.
However it seems he is quite prepared to forget his principles and the Earth when it comes to votes in his own constituency…..
Tim Yeo has pledged his full support to opponents of a wind farm at Chedburgh.
“I fully understand why anybody in a community as beautiful as this will be concerned. On shore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape. This happens to be one of the most beautiful parts of my constituency which stretches from here to the coast.”
“You don’t have to take a view about whether you are in favour or against wind energy in principle. This is not about that.”
“But where they are clearly quite inappropriate for the local community as, in my view, they most obviously are here, the voice of the local people should be decisive.”
“Now, unfortunately, of course that is not the way it actually works .”
Strange the inquisitive Davis didn’t ask him about his blatant hypocrisy….perhaps he is a sceptic and a luddite! We’ll never know as the respectful Davis didn’t ask.
The BBC…never knowingly unbiased.