'You ain't seen nothing yet' - Wind industry chief predicts opposition to pro-fracking government will only intensify

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Outgoing chief executive of RenewableUK looks back on a decade of working with wind power and to a future of uncertainty for her successor

As chief executive of the UK's biggest renewable energy trade body for the last decade, Maria McCaffery has experienced her fair share of conflict in the form of both public and political backlashes against...

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