Calls for ‘Joined-up Government’ to Aid Offshore Wind
The UK’ s offshore wind power industry, key to the Government achieving its target of generating 15% of the national electricity requirement from renewable sources by 2015, has been hit by opposition from the Government’ s own Ministry of Defence (MoD) as well as the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), just as it reaches a critical point of lift off.
The UK’ s offshore wind power industry, key to the Government achieving its target of generating 15% of the national electricity requirement from renewable sources by 2015, has been hit by opposition from the Government’ s own Ministry of Defence (MoD) as well as the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), just as it reaches a critical point of lift off.
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