VIEW FROM SCOTLAND: Steven Vass

Alex Salmond was oddly upbeat over EMR

John Hayes, the UK energy minister, might have been keeping his head down since getting rapped by his boss Ed Davey for being negative about wind – but we didn’t have to wait long into the new year before one of his colleagues stirred the pot again.

Planning minister Nick Boles’ leaked letter to Hayes about the risks of “riding roughshod” over the concerns of anti-wind campaigners served as another reminder to the Lib Dems that the Conservative foot-soldiers in the UK's Coalition government are going to keep making trouble over wind farms.

It should also have rattled nerves north of the border, in Alex Salmond’s camp. Scotland's First Minister does not usually miss an opportunity to censure Westminster in the name of Scottish interests, but he was notably upbeat when the Electricity Market Reform (EMR) White Paper was…

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