Greenpeace threatens Crown Estate with lawsuit over 'extortionate' offshore wind lease fees

Greenpeace threatens Crown Estate with lawsuit over 'extortionate' offshore wind lease fees

The Crown Estate argues its approach has helped build the UK’s world-leading offshore wind sector and that lease fees were determined by an auction process

Greenpeace threatens legal action against Crown Estate over ‘extortionate’ fees for offshore wind farm in Irish Sea

Greenpeace UK has today written to the Crown Estate threatening legal action over the way it leases plots on the seabed to offshore wind developers. The environmental group said the bidding process leads to developers paying ‘extortionate’ fees for plots on which to build new wind farms, and that the Crown Estate is exploiting its […]