Lack of confidence is driving away investors, so it’s time for a crystal-clear UK energy policy

It reminded me of one of those old black-and-white newsreel pictures of an animal — maybe a donkey — in a harness being lifted over the side of a cargo ship by one of its cranes.

However, what I was watching was not on a quayside but inside a large building, and the flailing limbs were not a beast’s legs — but the arms of a human.

I was observing a trainee engineer practise evacuation procedures at a wind training centre opened by Siemens on Tyneside, northeast England. It looked like the poor guy’s first time, but although he probably did not think it, such an experience is a privilege.

Because if Britain is hoping to keep its place at the forefront of the new offshore wind…

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