Our seas, some of the most productive in the world (of fish obviously) are filling up with wind turbines to such an extent that the politicians are running out of zones where seabed installation is feasible. This might be an opportunity to reconsider the limits of what is achievable through ‘renewable’ power generation, mainly from wind and wood chips shipped across the Atlantic.

However, a large new wind farm is now scheduled to be built off the east coast of Scotland, the Ossian Wind farm which will float whilst anchored to the seabed. All in pursuit of the unachievable Net Zero introduced by a Labour minister whose father was an avowed Marxist and left on the statute book by the Tories and vigorously pursued by Scottish politicians.

Generation by wind turbines is not financially viable without the Contracts for Difference or the subsidies for which providers bid in Dutch auctions to receive taxpayer funds. However, wind generation is also destroying the viable activity and mainstay of many coastal communities so do our fishermen receive subsidies for having their fishing grounds covered in wind turbines and having then to go further afield to catch fish? Will they get compensation for when the Tory party denominates their fishing grounds as Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMAs)? Did they get compensation when the Tories handed over massive ‘quotas’ of our fish to the EU ‘to get Brexit done’? Will they receive compensation for the extra cost of the diesel which they will have to pay because the refiners are being forced to produce fuel through the use of ‘green’ technology and then capture the carbon dioxide and do something with it, whatever.

This is all part and parcel of using Net Zero as a wrecking ball to undermine our way of life. It must bring a warm glow to those who froth at the mouth as they spout vitriol at those they deprecate as ‘nativists’; that’s us, we are the ones being deracinated by the mainstream political parties who deliberately undermine our traditional industries of the sea and the soil and replace them with those activities which are preferred by their alien imports.

John Gartside

UK Independence Party - Fishing Spokesman