>[Politics Home: Boris Johnson Accused Of Watering Down Energy Plans To Appease Hostile Tory MPs](https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/pm-accused-of-ditching-onshore-wind-plans-to-appease-tory-mps)
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>Two senior Whitehall sources told PoliticsHome that the government had watered down the language on building more onshore farms in England after it became clear it would go down badly with parts of the parliamentary Conservative party
>[Desmog: Anti-Net Zero MP Backs ‘Laughable’ Report Urging Renewables be ‘Wound Down’](https://www.desmog.com/2022/03/30/anti-net-zero-mp-backs-laughable-report-urging-renewables-be-wound-down/)
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>A Conservative MP leading a backbench revolt against UK climate policy has endorsed a report calling for renewable energy to be “wound down” completely.
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>South Thanet MP Craig Mackinlay, who chairs the Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG) in parliament, is quoted in the press release for the report Taking Back Control: Addressing Britain’s Energy Crisis, which was released over the weekend and covered in the Telegraph newspaper.
3/4 of people back it, As long as it’s not near where they live.
The poll doesn’t distinguish between onshore and offshore wind. Anyone got a link to the poll itself? Cant find it on opinium’s website.
But Is it feasible or worth it? Or do people like the idea of it?
Problem is, the 25% who don’t vote Tory and are appeased by them.
Where I live im surrounded by wind fsrms, yet local people see no benefit from them.
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From yesterday:
>[Politics Home: Boris Johnson Accused Of Watering Down Energy Plans To Appease Hostile Tory MPs](https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/pm-accused-of-ditching-onshore-wind-plans-to-appease-tory-mps)
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>Two senior Whitehall sources told PoliticsHome that the government had watered down the language on building more onshore farms in England after it became clear it would go down badly with parts of the parliamentary Conservative party
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>[The Guardian recently quoted](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/05/boris-johnson-blows-cold-on-onshore-wind-faced-with-100-plus-rebel-mps) a Tory MP saying there is a Whatsapp group containing more than 140 Conservative MPs who are opposed to the development of more wind farms on land.
and the deeper you go the more ridiculous:
>[Desmog: Anti-Net Zero MP Backs ‘Laughable’ Report Urging Renewables be ‘Wound Down’](https://www.desmog.com/2022/03/30/anti-net-zero-mp-backs-laughable-report-urging-renewables-be-wound-down/)
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>A Conservative MP leading a backbench revolt against UK climate policy has endorsed a report calling for renewable energy to be “wound down” completely.
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>South Thanet MP Craig Mackinlay, who chairs the Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG) in parliament, is quoted in the press release for the report Taking Back Control: Addressing Britain’s Energy Crisis, which was released over the weekend and covered in the Telegraph newspaper.
3/4 of people back it, As long as it’s not near where they live.
The poll doesn’t distinguish between onshore and offshore wind. Anyone got a link to the poll itself? Cant find it on opinium’s website.
But Is it feasible or worth it? Or do people like the idea of it?
Problem is, the 25% who don’t vote Tory and are appeased by them.
Where I live im surrounded by wind fsrms, yet local people see no benefit from them.