You wouldn't necessarily expect the Financial Times, that bible of the corporate world and the money markets, to be a champion of environmental causes but they've been upping the ante on renewable energy, specifically wind power.
This week, they've been publishing a series of articles and news reports on the UK wind farm industry and they've been particularly critical of how various government policies, which were put in place to encourage the development of renewable energy industries, are actually having the opposite effect. It has been scathing about the renewables obligation, a mechanism which has all of us paying extra on our energy bills to subsidise new projects such as wind farms.
The editorial slant is more concerned about the bottom line than climate change, but that a newspaper more usually associated with the establishment is on the government's case about renewable energy is encouraging. Some of the articles are listed on their climate change index page (you'll need to register to read more than five stories), but here are some of my favourites from elsewhere on their site.
Bonanza for old wind farms as bottlenecks hit new turbines
UK plans 'too weak' to boost wind power
