UK leaders may be realising wind can be a rare source of cheer

UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s claim he is leading “the greenest government ever” is clearly nonsense, as shown by policy decisions from retroactive cuts to PV feed-in tariffs (FITs), to allowing inflation-busting rail-fare price increases.

In recent months, Cameron’s Conservative Party has been in danger of succumbing to the backward political instincts of its anti-wind-energy Members of Parliament, and the sceptical views of Chancellor George Osborne.

Mixed messages, such as Cameron’s “speech that never was” at the London Clean Energy Ministerial meeting, and reports that key energy legislation had been delayed caused nervousness in the wind industry.

All may not be lost, however. The Queen’s Speech did, after all, promise delivery of a new energy bill in the 2012-13 parliamentary session, which began on 9 May.

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