Why are windfarms turning record profits for the crown estate? – podcast

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Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian’s energy correspondent, Jillian Ambrose, about how offshore windfarms are generating record profits for the crown estate, and why King Charles has asked for the money to be used for the wider public good. She also hears from economist Guy Standing about how the seabed became a source of income for the crown and what it means for our view of the oceans as ‘commons’

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A ship passing wind turbines at RWE's Gwynt y Mor,wind farm off Liverpool Bay, off North Wales.
Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA

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