Guardian - Simon Jenkin - Bravo for nimbyism. What else will keep us from turbines and pylons?

Too much faith - and subsidy - is ploughed into wind power when there are alternatives to butchering Britain
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For the time being I defer to the pleas of Dieter Helm, Oxford professor of energy economics, that even within the context of climate change the debate has been distorted by the sheer scale of subsidy. To Helm we should devote the money now going on high-profile, low-output carbon-substitutes to a switch from dirty coal to cleaner gas. It yields a far higher "green return" than wind. Most of Europe has this message and is scaling back on wind. To wreck the fragile landscape - and seascape - of Britain when the future more probably lies in gas, sun and waves seems idiotic.

So, gas is carbon cleaner than wind. And seemingly doesn't need pylons to carry the power. Is it any wonder that decisions made in the UK are some of the most stupid, ill-informed and short-sighted in europe ?

keep to the Fen Causeway