John Prescott, the former Deputy Prime Minister, will today launch a ferocious attack on the "landowners and nimbys" who he says are holding up the installation of wind farms across Britain and thus hindering the fight against climate change.

In unashamed class-warrior style, Mr Prescott lashes out at opponents of windpower who successfully block planning applications for wind turbines because they may spoil their "chocolate box view". He will tell the British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) at its annual conference in Liverpool: "We cannot let the squires and the gentry stop us meeting our moral obligation to pass this world... [continue via Web link]