SamCam's father exploits Labour's green subsidy with wind farm which nets £3.5m per year | Mail Online

David Cameron's father-in-law is among rich landowners cashing in on Labour's green subsidies, with a wind farm generating an estimated £3.5million a year on his country estate.

Sir Reginald Sheffield, 63, who is worth at least £20million, splits the profits with the project's developers.

Siemens to build UK wind turbine plant | Business | The Guardian

Alistair Darling announced £60m worth of grants in the budget to develop onshore manufacturing around dock areas, as well as a plan to create a green investment bank that would be capable of taking equity stakes in R3 schemes.

Some of these financial incentives seem to have been enough to persuade Siemens to build in Britain, going some way towards repairing the damage done by Vestas' decision to close the UK's only functioning wind turbine factory last summer in the Isle of Wight. There has also been dismay that 90% of the supply contracts for Britain's biggest offshore wind farm, the London Array, went abroad, many of them to Siemens in Germany and Denmark.

Green Left - Socialists campaign for climate [swindle] in poll

Socialist Alliance ran two candidates in the Tasmanian state elections on March 20. Melanie Barnes in the Hobart seat of Denison and Jenny Forward in the Kingston seat of Franklin campaigned for urgent action on climate change and to increase funding to public services.

The candidates spoke at meet-the-candidates forums on education, lesbian, gay, transgender and intersex rights, women’s health, climate change and other environmental issues.

Barnes won 363 votes (0.57%) and Forward won 279, both small increases from 2006.

Green Left - Bolivia seeks world climate poll

Bolivian President Evo Morales has proposed five questions for a global referendum on climate change to be discussed at the summit. The proposed questions are:

1) Do you agree with reestablishing harmony with nature while recognising the rights of Mother Earth?
2) Do you agree with changing this model of over-consumption and waste that represents the capitalist system?
3) Do you agree that developing countries should reduce and reabsorb their domestic greenhouse gas emissions for the temperature not to rise more than 1°C?
4) Do you agree with transferring all money spent in wars and allocating it to a budget bigger than used for defence to tackle climate change?
5) Do you agree with setting up a Climate Justice Tribunal to judge those who destroy Mother Earth?