A newspaper has accused the Welsh Government of spoiling the Welsh countryside to spite the English. A headline in the Daily Telegraph suggested the Cardiff Bay administration had opted for onshore wind farm developments rather than offshore projects in a bid to avoid benefiting the Crown Estate, which is controlled by the UK Government.
The headline reads: "Wales accused of spoiling countryside with wind farms to spite the English". It appears to be based partly on quotes from Fay Jones, Conservative MP for Brecon and Radnorshire, who criticised the Welsh government for taking a nationalist policy stance on green energy - although she doesn't refer to the countryside being spoiled or the English being spited.
Ms Jones told The Telegraph that the Welsh Government wasn't interested in offshore wind because it wouldn't get any financial benefits from it. She said: "It doesn’t seem to have offshore in its sights because it won’t derive all of the benefit from that.”
