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RenewableUK's Maf Smith reveals how, regardless of headlines to the contrary, the Committee on Climate Change predicts a healthy future for onshore wind post 2020

There's no sign of the highly politicised controversy over onshore wind policy subsiding. Today's front page of The Times features an interview with Lord Deben, the current Chairman of the Committee on...

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