Energy: Wind Turbines

Lord Hughes of Woodside Excerpts

Tuesday 14th June 2011 Lords Chamber

[Lord Hughes of Woodside]

My Lords, far be it for me to help the Minister out of the hole that he is digging for himself, but does he agree—and he obviously does—that wind farms are an essential part of our future energy policy, and that those who deny that, sometimes on aesthetic grounds, are like those who argue that farming should be left the way that nature intended, which would mean that there would be no farming at all?

[Lord Marland]

My Lords, there is not much I can say to that, except that I did not really think I was digging a hole for myself. However, the noble Lord is completely right in everything he says.