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I have recently read that Britain’s largest wind farm companies are pulling out of wind as fast as they can. If this is so, despite 100 per cent subsidies, the credit crunch and technical problems spell an end to the Government’s £100 billion dream of meeting our EU target to derive 35 per cent of our electricity from “renewables” by 2020.

Meanwhile the Government has apparently given the go-ahead for three new 1,000 megawatt gas-fired power stations in Wales. Each of them will generate more than the combined average output (700 megawatts) of all the 2,400 wind turbines so far built. The days of the “great wind fantasy” may soon be over. If this is true it will be good news to all those people in Lincolnshire who are opposed to a wind turbine landscape.

David Simcox