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Labour lifts Tories’‘absurd’ ban on onshore windfarms (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by frankPodmore@slrpnk.net to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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And while the Greens are doing what they do best (opposing green development), the Labour government has already lifted the Tory ban on onshore windfarms.

This is odd, because Labour are the same as the Tories, as we all know, and the Greens are a radical new force. But in this case, Labour are doing the direct opposite of the Tories, while the Greens are doing the same things the Tories did! Most curious.

EDIT: Here's the official government statement confirming this.

EDIT 2: And this isn't all! Rachel Reeves is also planning to do more to make onshore wind simpler to build.

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[–] frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 47 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I think a lot of people struggle to tell the difference between something that changes the view and something that ruins the view. Wind turbines will change a view, of course, because they're a new addition. But there's no sense in which they make it worse!

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But anything new is bad! Everything must remain the way it never was!

[–] 13esq@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When the national grid was being established a lot of people were very against the pylons being erected for very similar reasons that people are against wind farms. But who wants to stand up and say they want to go back to a time where having electricity in your household wasn't a normal thing now?

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People don't want power lines, solar panels, coal plants, wind turbines, etc. But of course they all want electricity. It just doesn't make sense.

[–] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Look, I get my internet through the air, why can't you send my electricity through the air?

gets struck by lightning

[–] fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fully agree. People travel for thousands of miles to see the windmills in the Netherlands. They’re no different and the beautiful white and curved designs makes them look like a true wonder of modern engineering achievement.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

we just need to paint a brick pattern on the base of wind turbines

[–] FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Arguably anything man-made makes a view worse, but as far as man-made structures go they're beautiful. And they give you a free wind gauge just by looking out the window. I'd rather see thousands of turbines on the horizon vs the glow of oil fields or plumes of smoke/steam.