ASSEMBLY ministers will be urged today to "end their obsession with windfarms". Conservative AMs will call for a review of Assembly energy policy to allow more reliance on other alternative power generation. They want the Labour Assembly leadership to rewrite the controversial Tan 8 planning guidance to local councils. Tory AMs say large parts of the countryside and coastline would be destroyed by hundreds of wind turbines and claim they would not even generate enough power to justify their existence. The aim is to increase the amount of energy from renewable sources by 10% over the next five years. But Conservatives are attacking the government for not looking at other forms of renewable energy such as tidal, solar or bio-mass. Tory environment spokesman Glyn Davies said: "The Welsh Assembly Government is obsessed with wind energy but has closed off its mind to other forms of renewable energy. "Any wind farm proposals should only come as part of a balanced, well-thought out approach to renewable energy." Welsh Conservative AM Alun Cairns, whose economic development portfolio includes responsibility for energy policy, said: "In its mad dash to build more and more wind farms, the Welsh Assembly government has alienated local communities." | 
