Wind - the new North Sea Oil?

May 28th 2008

"Gordon Brown should be looking closer to home for the answer to the looming energy crisis. Britain has already found a New North Sea oil, with enough untapped energy to power the whole country three or four times over! It's onshore wind energy. It's easy to harvest, economic and safe - and it won't run out in 10 or 20 years time. Rather than put pressure on the energy industry to squeeze more from the almost empty north sea - the prime minister needs to show some long term thinking. All he needs to do is reform the planning laws for wind energy, give it a system fit for purpose - something well within the governments own power. It's time we weaned ourselves off of oil, strong economies of the future won't be oil dependent ones."

Dale Vince - MD Ecotricity