Ed Miliband: beating nimbys on green rollout a matter of ‘national security’
by Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6QSPF)
Energy secretary vows to take on the blockers' opposed to wind turbines, solar farms and pylons
Ed Miliband has vowed to take on the nimbys opposed to the government's rollout of wind turbines, solar farms and pylons across the UK as a matter of national security" and economic justice".
The energy secretary used his first big public address on Tuesday to argue in favour of speedy consent for new energy infrastructure to break the UK's reliance on fossil fuels and avoid a repeat of a crisis of the scale we have been through, with such devastating effects".
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