I don't normally blog in the news section of my website but as I haven't updated for a while I am blogging in this section.

I have just come back from the second public meeting in two days which relates to the generation of power here in the constituency. Last night I was in Luddington attending a public meeting on the proposed extraction of Coal Bed Methanefrom the Isle of Axholme. This evening I was in Bonby for a meeting relating to the proposal for a wind farm at Saxby Wold.

Both of the meetings were well attended and there were particularly strong feelings expressed at the Bonby meeting. I personally am very sceptical about the large number of wind farm applications that we are getting in North Lincs and East Yorkshire. However, it is of course up to local people to make their minds up and so I am doing everything I can to make sure residents know how to put submissions in as part of the planning process.

The Conservatives have argued for some of the subsidy that goes into wind farms to be directed towards other technologies such as geo-thermal energy. That is exactly what we should do as we have got to accept that filling the landscape with lots of wind turbines is not the answer.