Wind turbines trash the landscape for the benefit of billionaires | Simon Jenkins

Energy policy is chaotic and incoherent. The myth that wind power is 'free' has driven Britain's politicians mad

Is it fair for the chancellor to cut pensions for the poor while offering a million pounds a year to the Duke of Roxburghe for letting the wind blow? Is it fair to offer half a million to the Earl of Moray, a third of a million to the Earl of Glasgow, and a quarter of a million to the Duke of Beaufort, Sir Alastair Gordon Cumming and Sir Reginald Sheffield, the prime minister's fath...