The Navitus Bay wind farm scheme has been rejected by the government. DORSET Council has not ruled out support for wind farms off the county’s coastline – although says that any future application will be decided at Government level. Climate campaigners say the only realistic way for Dorset to reduce net carbon dioxide emissions to zero as quickly as possible is to back offshore wind schemes on the scale of the previously proposed Navitus Bay project in Bournemouth Bay. Pete West, secretary to the Dorset Community Energy group, says that such a scheme would decarbonise the total electricity consumption of Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole at no cost to the council and could create hundreds of new jobs.