Business Green: Just a day after the government announced that the UK’s offshore wind energy industry could support up to 70,000 jobs, new research from Friends of the Earth will argue that further 70,000 jobs could be created through council programmes to insulate homes and businesses. The research was undertaken by green consultancy Carbon Descent and is based on a detailed study of 65 local authority assessing the rate of deployment of cavity wall insulation, loft insulation and combined heat and …