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BBC: Climate expert: Opposing windfarms in your community ‘isn’t an acceptable moral position’

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-65026300

By Teleri Glyn Jones
BBC Wales environment correspondent

Communities opposed to wind turbines in their local area do not have an “acceptable moral position”, according to a climate change expert.

Dozens of large-scale windfarm applications are being considered as Wales tries to reach net zero.

Campaigners say the ambition is putting the Welsh countryside at risk and south Wales already has several wind farms.

Lord Deben, the UK Climate Change Committee chairman, said the onus was on everyone to help reach the target.

“We can’t all the time say we’re in favour of things but somewhere else,” he said.

“I think every community has to say to itself, ‘if we don’t have this what are we going to have?’

“We can’t all the time say we’re in favour of things but somewhere else. That isn’t an acceptable moral position,” said Lord Deben.

He added that people could not expect others to carry the cost of net zero without doing something themselves.

“I think every community has to say to itself, ‘if we don’t have this what are we going to have?’

“We can’t all the time say we’re in favour of things but somewhere else. That isn’t an acceptable moral position,” said Lord Deben.

He added that people could not expect others to carry the cost of net zero without doing something themselves.

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