Developers should pay millions to UK coastal communities affected by offshore wind projects or risk a fracking-style backlash from residents, two former British energy ministers have warned.
Andrea Leadsom and Amber Rudd claim a new ‘offshore wind wealth fund’ is needed amid swelling opposition to the disruption caused on land by giant new developments in the UK North Sea.
Leadsom and Rudd – who both recently served as energy secretaries for the governing Conservative Party – said: “We already do this for onshore wind farms and we were planning something similar for fracking.
