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Hopefully, with the realisation that offshore wind is creating a whole new life for many industrial sectors and facilities, and the fact that it's largely a regulatory-driven activity, governments will realize that this is the perfect opportunity to re-invent and rehabilitate the concept of industrial policy to make sure that this sector gets built in the most sensible and cheapest way possible, and gets integrated into the existing grid properly.

In your enthusiasm, you inadvertently give conservatives a whole bunch of dog-whistles to push against.

Concepts such as "regulatory-driven" and "industrial policy" are exactly" what the ConDem-Nation feel they were elected to prevent. Indeed you give the game away when you note that they have cut the funds allocated to provide the port facilities necessary to drive this from British soil.

The millionaires have the City to make their money for them, so they just invest in the companies that provide it. They don't actually care that the jobs provided aren't British, they really just want the money.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Sep 23rd, 2010 at 11:31:58 AM EST
the Guardian headlines the fact that less than 20% of £900m investment in Thanet windfarm goes to British firms... which is what you get when you don't have an industrial policy.

Bloody typical of Nulab to actually get one thing right (urgent need for offshore wind power) and do virtually nothing to kick-start a local industry to cater to it.

It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II

by eurogreen on Thu Sep 23rd, 2010 at 11:58:31 AM EST
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You have to stand up for these notions, and stand proudly for them. Industrial policy, national energy policy, government long term plans, etc...

That's the only way to change the narrative. And images of massive, powerful, and yet eerily peaceful offshore turbines may yet help to do so. It's there (not a dream), it works, and it's as industrial as it can get.

Wind power

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Sep 23rd, 2010 at 12:13:13 PM EST
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