The Welsh government has been accused of spoiling the Welsh countryside with wind farms to spite the English.
Cardiff is pressing ahead with onshore wind farm developments when it could explore more offshore projects because it does not want to send fees to the Crown Estate or share control of projects with the UK Government, campaigners have warned.
Fay Jones, Conservative MP for Brecon and Radnorshire, criticised the Welsh government for taking a nationalist policy stance on green energy.
She said: “It doesn’t seem to have offshore in its sights because it won’t derive all of the benefit from that.”
The Crown Estate is the ultimate owner of around half of the coastline and seabed around England, Wales and Northern Ireland (a separate entity, the Crown Estate Scotland is the equivalent north of the border). This means it collects fees from the development of offshore projects.
The Welsh government’s Future Wales strategy document said it supported offshore wind but that these projects did not fall within its remit.
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