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Will Wind Energy Ever Take Off?

Simon Cox investigates whether Britain will ever develop a viable wind energy industry and how our European neighbours are profiting from our failures.

Within days of the government announcing its new renewable energy policy promising a massive expansion of wind power and the creation of 400,000 new jobs, the UK's only factory making wind turbine blades closed and put 600 people out of work. Simon Cox investigates whether Britain will ever develop a viable wind energy industry and how our European neighbours are profiting from our failures.

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Thu 20 Aug 2009 20:00

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