Independent: There aren’t that many genuine hard cases in the environment, where both sides have right on their side, but the case of wind energy is one of them.
On the one hand, even if climate change has fallen off the political agenda because of the recession, the global warming problem has not remotely gone away, and we need low-carbon, renewable energy more than ever. Not only do we need it, we are legally obliged to provide it under EU law: we have signed up to achieving 15 per cent of our energy consumption…