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Every windfarm mapped - and the MPs who hate them

What difference do anti-windfarm MPs make? Conservative MPs have written to prime minister David Cameron demanding cuts to support for onshore windfarms and easier ways to block them through planning objections. We thought it would be interesting to show where those MPs are based - and where windfarms are either working, planned or in planning. This map is the result - what patterns do you think it shows?

The data for anti-windfarm MPs is from Darren Shirley of WWF, MySociety and the windfarm map is from RenewableUK.

Download the Google Fusion tables behind this map:
Anti-windfarm MPs
Every windfarm in the UK


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