Business Green: The central role of environmental and energy issues at the forthcoming election was underlined today when Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg announced plans to bolster the UK’s fledgling wind turbine manufacturing industry, branding it a "scandal" that UK wind farms were largely reliant on imported turbines. Speaking at an event in Newcastle to launch the party’s new Green Jobs Manifesto, Clegg said that a Lib Dem government would divert £400m of government spending to support seven …