Vestas: sparking the struggle, seeing it through
On 20 September, two days before police finally broke the Newport factory blockade, some of the AWL activists who have been involved in the Vestas campaign talked over the experience. This is a longer version of this text than in the printed paper. Geographically, Britain is specially well placed to use wind energy as a renewable, zero-emissions alternative to fossil fuels. On 15 July, Energy and Climate Change minister Ed Miliband published a White Paper about renewable energy which called for 7000 more wind turbines to be built. Yet Britain's only wind-turbine blade factories are two, owned...