NZ Business Roundtable Perspectives No. 287

When wind power blows, jobs will fall
By Dominic Lawson
31 July 2009

Miliband’s citing of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech in support of his policy of subsidising the construction of many thousands of otherwise uneconomic wind turbines might appear grotesque, even comical; but not if you genuinely believe that Britain’s switching from coal to wind power for its electricity generation will save the lives of countless Africans.

I have no idea whether Miliband truly believes that it will - but if he does, he is deluded.

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This article was first published in The Times online 19 July 2009.
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