Wind Farm Meeting At Sponne School  

I organised a meeting on Monday 7 November to discuss onshore wind farms with Charles Hendry MP, Minister of State for Energy and a dozen other MP Colleagues. The issues I wanted to raise were: Localism – how do wind farms being approved on appeal fit with our Localism agenda? Technology – what realistic contribution can wind farms make to meeting our energy needs? Fuel poverty – how are we going to deal with the problem of more and more people falling into fuel poverty as energy bills    keep on rising? It was a constructive meeting with the Minister answering a number of questions and later in the week he wrote to me. You can read the letter here. Since then I have held a meeting in the constituency with representatives of the 92 parish councils in the district. I was able to give them some positive news: The Government have confirmed that developers...