"The current rush for large scale onshore wind developments, connected by a hugely centralised grid system shows a poverty of imagination and thinking rooted in the early 20th Century. If attention continues to be focused on increasing renewable energy targets, without any requirement to demonstrate what each development will achieve in greenhouse gas emissions reductions (including all aspects of the generation and transmission), we face a possible worst case scenario, where we achieve renewable energy targets through inappropriate developments and at great cost to important environments - only to discover that our greenhouse gas emissions are up, along with our energy consumption, and our energy supply is not secure." --John Muir Trust
