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How many dead birds does it take to build a wind farm?
Nowhere is this more true than off the coast of Norfolk, where Ed Davey has just made one of those life and death decisions that come with the high office of Energy Secretary. Shockingly, he has decreed that guillotining 94 shaggy-crested terns a year is acceptable, even if you have no plans to put them in a sandwich.
July 6, 2012
by Alistair Osborne
in The Telegraph
Nowhere is this more true than off the coast of Norfolk, where Ed Davey has just made one of those life and death decisions that come with the high office of Energy Secretary. Shockingly, he has decreed that guillotining 94 shaggy-crested terns a year is acceptable, even if you have no plans to put them in a sandwich.
There are limits, though, to that sort of behaviour - even in Norfolk. Which is why Davey has decided to block Centrica's plans to build the proposed 540MW Docking Shoal wind farm, whose tern-slicing blades might have powered 400,000 homes.
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