Category: The fight against the destruction of our farms and greenbelt

The public is being told that the path to 2030 is clear: buy electric cars, switch to electric heating, cover the country with more renewable generation, and trust that the system will catch up. But once you look beneath the slogans, the picture is far less convincing. Millions of British homes are not practically ready…

“Texas shows what happens when the green promise ends in broken blades and broken promises. Scotland and the North Sea are heading toward the same reckoning unless decommissioning, recycling, and financial liability are dealt with before expansion goes any further.” The disturbing scenes from Sweetwater, Texas, should be read in Britain not as a distant…

I attended the December 2025 session of the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee hoping to hear a serious examination of the evidence, the uncertainties, the trade-offs, and the real public concerns surrounding the so-called energy transition. Instead, what I witnessed felt far narrower than that. It was not an open forum in which competing…

At the end of winter 2025/26, UK gas storage stood at around 9.45 TWh. Depending on the capacity measure used, that left the country with only around a fifth to a quarter of available storage filled. In practical terms, that is a very thin buffer for a country still heavily dependent on gas for heating,…

Britain is heading towards an avoidable national crisis. The data we have uncovered points in one direction only: this country is becoming more exposed, more fragile and more vulnerable at exactly the moment the world is becoming more hostile. Global instability is growing. Fuel markets are tightening. Gas supplies are under pressure. Domestic resilience is…

There was a time when people believed that if the countryside was under threat, the great environmental and rural organisations of Britain would be there to defend it. That was, after all, what many of them were created for. Their names carried weight. They spoke of stewardship, beauty, wildlife, fields, woods, hedgerows, and the quiet…

Across Yorkshire and the Humber, a serious problem is being hidden in plain sight.More than 5 gigawatts of electricity generation is already queued at a handful of substations across the region. Leeds North, Ferrybridge, Thorpe Marsh, Keadby, Creyke Beck and Saltend are all carrying major volumes of pending generation, yet the grid reinforcements needed to…

The River Trent is one of England’s great working rivers.It has carried trade, fed farmland, shaped communities, and anchored the landscape between Gainsborough and Newark for generations. It is part of the backbone of the country , not just a line on a map, but a living valley of fields, villages, heritage, and hard-won identity.Now…

When you look out across scenery like this in Scotland, you are not looking at empty land. You are looking at beauty that has stood there long before any of us and, if we have any sense, should still be there long after we are gone. You are looking at lochs, hills, woodland, open sky…

Excerpt: A map of Britain’s solar NSIP pipeline reveals 45 major projects amounting to almost 20GW of proposed generation. The likely land take runs into tens of thousands of hectares , and that is before counting batteries, substations, cable routes and smaller local schemes. Britain’s countryside is being changed before our eyes. Across England and…

The climate change debate in Parliament on 19 March 2026 should have been an opportunity for honesty. At a time when households are under sustained financial pressure, industry is struggling, and questions around energy security are becoming more urgent, the country deserved a serious and open discussion. Instead, what unfolded in the Commons was something…

Europe is beginning to say out loud what many ordinary people have felt for years: carbon pricing pushes up costs.This week, the EU’s carbon market came under pressure after Ursula von der Leyen signalled that Brussels was willing to consider releasing more emissions permits and adjusting parts of the system to stop energy prices rising…

Just past the spring equinox, with daylight hours growing longer and ministers still selling the fantasy that wind and solar are leading Britain towards a cheap, secure future, the National Grid’s own daily figures tell a very different story.They expose the reality of the modern British electricity system: even in late March, when solar output…

The numbers are so large they barely feel real.Half a million acres of land is equivalent to around 781 square miles or 2,023 square kilometres. That is an area larger than Greater London. It is not a field here or a small development there. It is the slow industrialisation of the English landscape on a…

There was a time when Britain understood a simple, immovable truth: food comes from farmers.Not from supermarkets, not from policy frameworks, and certainly not from ideological targets drafted in Whitehall. It comes from the land , and from those who work it.Yet that understanding is fading. In its place is a complacent assumption that food…

The Government says Britain must go “further and faster” in its pursuit of energy security. In a press release on 15 March 2026, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero unveiled a package of measures designed to accelerate the country’s transition to so-called clean power. The announcement includes another…

The images above show what happens when extreme weather meets weather-dependent energy infrastructure.Rows of solar panels lie twisted across muddy farmland. Glass is shattered. Aluminium frames are bent or ripped apart. Electrical equipment is scattered across the ground.This was the scene after a tornado struck a major solar installation in the United States.In March 2024,…

The Coming Electricity Crunch: AI, Net Zero and the Grid Britain Forgot to BuildBritain now faces a fundamental question: how will it provide reliable and affordable electricity for households, industry and emerging technologies while simultaneously electrifying the economy and pursuing legally binding climate targets? The uncomfortable truth is that the country no longer has a…

The debate over the proposed Marr Solar Farm has entered a new phase. Following a recent High Court judgment on the interpretation of so-called “grey belt”, Doncaster Council has been advised that it may need to remove Green Belt harm as a reason for defending its refusal at appeal.Some will try to present this as…