Business Green: The planned expansion of the UK’s onshore wind energy capacity was given a boost yesterday with the publication of new research suggesting that wind farms located on farm land have less of an impact on local birdlife than previously feared. The study from a team of researchers at Newcastle University assessed two wind farms on the East Anglian fens and found that they posed little threat to farmland birds in the area. The researchers recorded almost 3,000 birds from 23 …