Wind Farms

Prince Harry 'Worries About Visual Impact' Of Windfarms

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 11.05.2013 | UK

Prince Harry has voiced concerns about the visual impact of windfarms during his tour of America. His comments came as he attended a reception in D...

Offshore Wind Farms Will Leave the UK Feeling Blue

Ben Acheson | Posted 06.05.2013 | UK Politics
Ben Acheson

Despite their importance, around 2-7% of global blue carbon sinks are lost annually - four times the rate of loss of rainforests. Building massive turbines near such resources will only exacerbate the damage and release huge amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere.

Wind Power: What Is It We Are Trying to Save?

Luke Dale-Harris | Posted 31.03.2013 | UK
Luke Dale-Harris

Across Europe, wind farms continue to be erected in areas where they cause significant harm. Perhaps most distressing of these are those being thrown up across the migratory corridor that runs through Eastern Romania, along which hundreds of thousands of birds fly each year.

Wind Farm Protesters Backed By Tory Planning Minister

Daily Telegraph | Posted 06.03.2013 | UK Politics

People opposed to onshore wind farms should not have their views "ridden over roughshod", the planning minister has told the energy minister in a priv...

Top Five Current Coalition Bust-Ups

The Huffington Post UK | Christopher York | Posted 03.12.2012 | UK Politics

Political punch-ups, ministerial maulings, cabinet combat, parliamentary pugnaciousness, commons clashes, everywhere you look in the Commons it seems ...

Government Kicks Carbon Emission Targets Into The Long Grass

Charlie Thomas | Posted 23.11.2012 | UK

The government has decided to delay a decision to set carbon emission targets until 2016; after the next election. Labour accused the Liberal Democ...

Have We Left It Too Late?

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 21.11.2012 | UK

Greenhouse gas emissions are on track to be far above the levels needed by 2020 to limit global temperature rises to 2C, experts are warning. Witho...

Corbyshambles?

Juliet Davenport | Posted 14.01.2013 | UK Politics
Juliet Davenport

Wind farms are good for our economy, good for our energy bills and good for our climate - now there's a real vote winner.

Mehdi's Morning Memo: By-Election Blues

Huffington Post | Mehdi Hasan | Posted 14.11.2012 | UK Politics

The ten things you need to know on Wednesday 14th November... 1) BY-ELECTION BLUES The Tory candidate in Thursday's Corby by-election, Christine...

PM To Push For Arab Investment In Nuclear Energy, Renewables And Oil

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 06.11.2012 | UK Politics

David Cameron will push for massive new Middle Eastern investment in Britain's energy production on Tuesday - including cash for windfarms, nuclear en...

John Hayes Is Wrong About Wind Farms

Natalie Bennett | Posted 01.01.2013 | UK Politics
Natalie Bennett

There's an even bigger concern behind the latest row. Whatever happened to David 'Hug a Husky' Cameron? Has he been replaced by a 'Frack the Countryside' lookalike?

Country 'Peppered' With Wind Farms

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 31.10.2012 | UK Politics

The Tory energy minister has said the country is "peppered" with wind farms insisting: "Enough is enough." John Hayes said the "extraordinary" spre...

Hot Air?

PA | Posted 27.10.2012 | UK Politics

Wind farms should not be located in areas of the country where there is little wind, Environment Secretary Owen Paterson said today. Mr Paterson, w...

Trump Tees Off As He Opens Scottish Golf Course

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 10.07.2012 | UK Sport

American billionaire businessman Donald Trump opened his luxury golf course in Scotland on Tuesday as he teed off at the first hole alongside golfing ...

Donald Trump Warns Alex Salmond Wind Farms Will End Independence Dream

PA | Posted 02.07.2012 | UK Politics

US tycoon Donald Trump has written to First Minister Alex Salmond, warning him Scotland can "never" become independent under his leadership because wi...

Donald Trump Claims Holyrood 'Lured' Him Into Investing

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 25.04.2012 | UK

Donald Trump has complained he was "lured" into investing in Scotland by two First Ministers. The US businessman said he was assured by Alex Salmon...

Is Cameron Green Enough?

PA | HuffPost UK Staff | Posted 23.04.2012 | UK Politics

David Cameron has been urged to boost UK clean energy and reduce reliance on imported gas after a poll found a large majority of people backed a drive...

Trump In Hot Air Outburst Against Wind Farms

PA | Posted 17.04.2012 | UK

US tycoon Donald Trump has warned that wind farms could "completely end" tourism in Scotland and the country is "in effect committing financial suicid...

Nuclear Power is on the Horizon

David Morris MP | Posted 11.06.2012 | UK Politics
David Morris MP

The last few years have been an exciting, yet scary and unknown time for the nuclear industry. After decades of inaction under various governments the coalition announced a major initiative to see new nuclear power station construction.

Britain's Newest Bank Is Green And Scottish

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Chris Wimpress | Posted 08.03.2012 | UK Politics

The UK's first Green Investment Bank will be based in London and Scotland, the Government announced on Thursday. Business Secretary Vince Cable sai...

It's Madness! Donald Trump's Mission To Save Scotland From Windfarms

PA | Posted 07.03.2012 | UK Politics

US tycoon Donald Trump today said he would help save Scotland from "this madness" by speaking out against wind turbines. The flamboyant businessman...

Donal Trump To Use Billions To Bankroll Anti-Wind Farm Campaign In Scotland

PA/The Huffington Post | Posted 23.02.2012 | UK Politics

American tycoon Donald Trump is to bankroll an anti-wind farm campaign in his fight against an off-shore development near his luxury golf resort in Sc...

Prime Minister Rejects Tory Backbench Wind Farm Criticism

PA | Posted 21.02.2012 | UK Politics

David Cameron has defended the government's plans for spreading wind farms across the country despite criticism from his own backbenchers. The prim...

Tory MPs Write To Cameron Attacking Wind Farm Rollout

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 05.04.2012 | UK Politics

More than 100 Tory MPs have written to David Cameron calling for a dramatic cut in subsidies to onshore wind farms and more influence for local people...

These Are Expensive And Useless, Claims Think-Tank Civitas

The Huffington Post UK | Chris Wimpress | Posted 09.01.2012 | UK Politics

Britain's investment in wind farms has been branded a "folly" in a report on their ability to reduce the UK's carbon emissions, which concludes that w...