Renewable UK’s Crooked Opinion Poll

By Paul Homewood

h/t stewgreen

Renewable UK have just teamed up with YouGov to produce a remarkably dishonest survey, (even by their usual lamentable standards) which is designed to show how popular wind farms supposedly are:

https://twitter.com/RenewableUK/status/1018763194096144384

So, onshore wind is the “favourite” infrastructure? Well, it may be the favourite out of these six options, but that is not saying very much at all.

This was the question:

So, onshore wind only gets 1% more of the vote than a railway line in your local area. Hardly a ringing endorsement for wind power, is it?

And a new housing estate or dual carriageway just down the road are not exactly likely to get people cheering either.

The low vote for fracking simply reflects how badly the media have reported on the process. And as for building a nuclear power station at the bottom of your garden, the question is so ridiculous, it should not have even been asked.

They might just as well have asked, would you rather be burnt, scalded or have a red hot poker up the jacksy.

A much better question would have been, “do you want a windfarm built within a mile of your home?” But we know what the response to that would have been!

There is a second question that they asked:

To which, 23% said they strongly supported, and 43% tended to support (in other words, could not give a toss).

But the question itself is fake. The government’s policy does not “exclude” onshore wind farms, it merely withdraws subsidies.

I wonder what the response would have been if the question had been:

“Do you agree that onshore wind farms should continue to be subsidised via energy bills?”

One other question in the survey gives a clue as to why 66% want onshore wind farms to continue to be built:

To which the answer was:

Incredibly 27% though offshore wind was cheapest, closely followed by those who chose onshore wind.

This is testament to just how successful the disinformation campaign run by Renewable UK, Greenpeace and the rest has been, ably supported by politicians of all parties who have continually refused to reveal the real costs of green subsidies, and their cheerleaders in the media, ably led by the BBC and aided by hacks like Jillian Ambrose.

So, at the risk of repeating myself, these are the actual costs of wind power, due to come on stream this year and next.

Offshore projects will be paid an index linked, guaranteed price of between £133.29 and £166.59/MWh, for 15 years: