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Turbines or Tearooms

Much of the British countryside is off-limits to green energy development. Is it time to site badly-needed wind turbines within National Parks? Tom Heap investigates.

All over the country renewable energy schemes are being thwarted by local people determined to stop wind farms and bio-mass plants being built on some of the most beautiful doorsteps in Britain.

In the first of a new series of 芒聙聵Costing the Earth芒聙聶 Tom Heap asks if radical action is needed to break through the blockade. Should the new planning laws intended to rush through urgently needed road and airport projects be extended to all green energy projects? Or should developers make more effort to get local people on board? If locals can see an immediate financial benefit will they drop their opposition?

Tom Heap travels from Sussex to Orkney to meet the protestors and find out how they can be brought on board the green energy revolution.

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Thu 3 Sep 2009 13:30
麻豆社 Radio 4

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