Call to tie renewables consents to community packages
Onshore renewables and transmission developers should be forced to pay financial packages to local communities to help smooth away opposition to their projects, an influential Conservative-allied thinktank has urged. Polling carried out by Onward for its new report, entitled ‘Power to the People’, shows that providing packages of community benefits are more popular among rural voters than offering discounts on their energy bills.
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