Ministry for Mass Appeal
Brown to follow through after pushing wind...
Gordon Brown has upped his eco credentials by pushing the expansion of wind power turbines throughout the nation. Over the coming decade, the £100bn plans will hopefully see that the UK becomes in leader of renewable energy, with a targeted 15% of its power coming from renewable sources by 2020.
As the news shines an unusually positive light on the famously inept Prime Minister, it is only to be expected that his rivals would have a word or two to say about it, with the Tories going on record as saying that the plans were actually their idea, and the Lib Dems stating that it's all spin and no steam. Won't they ever learn to just get along with one another?
"The North Sea has now passed its peak of oil and gas supply - but it will now embark on a new transformation into the global centre of the offshore wind industry", Brown said, "And yes, there will have to be more windfarms onshore too."
The Government's plans will involve the installation of about 4,000 onshore and 3,000 offshore turbines, which Brown assures us will be positioned in locations that don't have too drastic an effect on the nation's aesthetic designs. The whale botherers at Greenpeace have labelled the move as being 'visionary' but warned that ministers have previously made promises without delivering the goods.
With Brown's new found desire to supply the UK with an energy independence that it currently lacks due to it being at the mercy of oversea oil barons, now could perhaps be the time for that rare occurrence in which MPs are forced to follow their ideas through to realisation.
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Windfarms are the least efficiant and most costly way of producing energy - actual output tends to be around 30% of stated output due to variable weather (and that's quite a favourable estimate!) Far better to push nuclear power, which is far more cost effective than most forms.