"The ministers who decided this should be ashamed. No wonder the government is failing to tackle climate change. As each day goes by Labour's commitments to the environment become more and more unbelievable."
Stephen Tindale, executive director of Greenpeace, said: "Any government that wants to expand airports and turn down windfarms is simply not fit to govern. It's hard to believe that the nuclear industry has not played some role in this. Climate change will ravage beautiful areas like the Lake District. I hope those responsible will be willing to explain to future generations how they played their part in allowing the savage grip of global warming to trash the countryside and claim hundreds of thousands of lives."
I'm concerned that this becomes a precedent: the present trumps the future, the hard decisions are ducked, nimbyism gains the upper hand and business as usual takes us to hell in a handbasket.
Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Climate campaigners outraged as wind farm plan is axed
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