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(Echo, 14th May) depressing reading. In particular the statement quoted from environment portfolio holder, Cllr Ray Bryan warning that the estimated total £130m cost of climate change policies for Dorset Council could result in a five per cent increase in council tax. This is complete nonsense. Two years after Dorset Council declared a climate and ecological emergency it is shocking to realise the council’s main aim is to do nothing. In practice renewable energy costs are plummeting and with only a small amount of motivation it is possible to dramatically reduce Dorset’s CO2 emissions at almost no cost to the council or council tax payers.
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Are offshore wind farms the best way for Dorset to tackle climate emergency?
DORSET Council has not ruled out support for wind farms off the county’s coastline – although it says that any future application will be decided at government level.
Climate campaigners say the only realistic way for Dorset to reduce net carbon dioxide emissions to zero as quickly as possible is to back offshore wind schemes on the scale of the previously proposed Navitus Bay project in Bournemouth Bay.
The controversial Navitus Bay project was rejected by the government in 2015 after years of campaigning and opposition, including from MPs and the now extinct borough councils in the area.