NZ Business Roundtable Perspectives No. 287

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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