Farmers enouraged to cash in on the scramble for wind

Telegraph
"It is the new gold rush sweeping its way across Britain. Except the scramble is not for some precious metal or rare commodity but for wind.

For after years, struggling to eke out a living, farmers are being offered a new way to get rich - by energy speculators determined to build wind turbines on their land.An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph reveals developers are exploiting a green energy subsidy, worth billions of pounds, to persuade landowners to turn their fields over for wind farms.The speculators - who have been compared to door-to-door double glazing salesmen - are 'cold calling' farmers with offers often too tempting to refuse. One farmer in Northumberland has reported receiving 12 separate offers from developers to build turbines on his land."