The recently appointed energy and business minister told the The Daily Telegraph that new schemes would have to gain “community consent”, effectively handing the power of veto to communities in opposition to wind farms in their area.Continue reading at the Telegraph:
He also warned that he would not tolerate some areas being “swamped” by applications for wind farms. Several councils have been frustrated in their attempts to block such developments and have faced multi-million-pound legal bills.
The issue has become crucial in many rural Conservative areas and is expected to have an impact on next week’s local elections in which David Cameron is expected to lose hundreds of council seats.
Mr Fallon admitted that action was needed to protect rural shires facing the prospect of thousands of new turbines.
“It’s about a better balance,” he said. “We are not against renewable energy, but it has to have community consent.
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