Blog: Last time I wrote about the great pylon debate I said I needed time to decide which side of the fence to be on and, as promised, I’ve spent many hours since researching the seemingly murky roots of the so-called ‘low-carbon revolution’.

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve had my own run-ins with the NIMBYs of this world and bandwagons are not something I often hitch a ride on, so I had to find out for my own peace of mind whether wind farms are something we should be protesting about.

After all, according to Labour leader Ed Miliband, opposing wind farms should become as socially unacceptable as failing to wear a seat belt.

So having spent many, pretty mind-numbing hours reading up about renewable energy targets and the many sticky fingers in EU funding pies, I’ve finally come to my own conclusions: people, let’s protest!

Peter Davies, Doncaster’s publicly elected and much talked about “no-nonsense” mayor, made his feelings clear on the subject.

“These [wind farm] developments have little or no benefit in terms of contributing to decreased energy consumption, nor do they have any beneficial effect on the planet’s climate in response to the great global warming scam,” he said.

So who do we trust? Ed Miliband, the climate change cabinet minister up to his eyes with the EU and their renewable energy funds and quotas and grants, or Peter Davies, the no-nonsense Mayor who, after sweeping unexpectedly to power, made it his first job to slash his own salary from £73,000 to £30,000 per year and then immediately gave up the use of his chauffeur-driven car (after finding the chauffeur a new job).

And the more I investigate, the more the truths of global warming are seemingly obscured by the intricate web of grants and funds and targets and EU involvement, until it seems to me an economic issue rather than an ecological one.

It has been estimated that 180,000 jobs will be created in the UK by the renewable energy movement by 2012, and while that in itself is laudable, should it really be at the cost of our health, happiness and incredibly valuable natural environment?

And if an emerging global warming industry is really at the heart of all this political interest, why can’t we just be honest and up-front about it and stop pretending it’s all about the planet, man?

Because it seems politicians are so busy racing to reach renewable energy targets set by the EU in order to get their sticky mitts on the huge grants available, nobody seems all that interested in how much energy the wind turbines will actually create, or whether the rape and pillage of our most valuable asset – our beautiful countryside – will really be worth it in the end.