Boris Johnson to rip up rules banning new onshore wind farms – risking Tory civil war
BORIS Johnson will rip up the ban on new onshore wind turbines in England — risking a Tory civil war after his own Cabinet branded them eyesores.
Locals will be offered discounts on energy bills if they do not block the new windmills.
And the Prime Minister will promise to build a new nuclear reactor every year by 2030 as part of his plans to wean the nation off foreign energy.
His Energy Security Strategy will see domestic energy production massively expanded through nuclear, hydrogen and both onshore and offshore wind production.
More oil and gas will also be drilled in the North Sea, to the fury of green campaigners.
New fracking research will be done.
The PM is visiting Hinkley Point nuclear plant in Somerset today to unveil the plan to triple domestic production of energy in the face of Russia’s Ukraine invasion.
New nuclear projects, in Wylfa, on Anglesey, and Sizewell, Suffolk, are on the cards.
The PM wants a quarter of electricity to be via nuclear by 2050.
But Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has branded the onshore turbines an “eyesore”.
