Christopher Booker, Telegraph
In other words, that Ecotricity advertisement was, in almost every respect,
misleading; which is hardly surprising, since the firm’s owner, Dale Vince,
is famous as a master of green propaganda. It was he who erected the most
famous wind turbine in the country – and also one of the least efficient –
seen by millions of motorists each year as they drive along the M4 past
Reading. In 2006, I reported how, to mark the go-ahead for a monster wind
farm in the Thames Estuary, the BBC announced a celebratory programme from
Reading’s “Green Park”, to be powered entirely by Mr Vince’s windmill. Sure
enough, the wind dropped, forcing the BBC to rely on a nasty, CO2-emitting
diesel generator. Yet it is on machines like Mr Vince’s turbine that our
government has centred Britain’s entire future energy policy."
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