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

Sign the petition TODAY to protect our communities! ✍️ Let’s demand regulations that prioritize safety over shortcuts. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/723869 🚨 Sign Our Petition for Safer Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)! 🚨 Our petition demands: ✅ Minimum safe distances from homes, schools, and hospitals ✅ Mandatory, strict fire safety laws to prevent and contain incidents ✅ Community…

The Whitestone proposal’s irreconcilable conflicts with Defra’s guidelines, combined with its potential for irreversible harm, justify its complete abandonment. The following reasons, encompassing W1, W2, and W3, highlight why the project cannot proceed beyond Stage 2 (scoping) and should be terminated. 1. Unacceptable Flood Risks to the River Don and Local Communities Issue Across Sites:…

Who They Are: Save Our Greenbelt is a grassroots movement in Conisbrough, South Yorkshire (~12,000 residents), opposing the Whitestone Solar Farm, a 750 MW solar project with Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), spanning Green Belt land across Rotherham and Doncaster. Separate from the Wales and Kiveton group (focused on Whitestone’s southern sites and the 40…

The UK’s green energy agenda is a predatory fraud, gutting the heart of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Norfolk. Subsidies for solar farms and Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), costing £12 billion annually and set to soar to £19.7 billion by 2030, are obliterating prime farmland, spiking energy bills, and trapping 6.5 million households in fuel poverty.…

Posted: April 28, 2025Doncaster Council’s January 28, 2025, approval of the Thorpe Marsh BESS (1.4 GW, 22 hectares) is a betrayal of our safety, farmland, and values. Cramming 880 Sungrow battery units into 55 acres risks fires, destroys Grade 3a BMV land, and uses slave-labor-tainted components, repeating Askern Solar Farm’s grazing lies. With 4,463 hectares…

Ed Miliband, the UK’s Energy Secretary, is driving an ambitious agenda to expand solar energy to 70 GW by 2035 and fund research into stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) geoengineering. While these policies aim to combat climate change, they have sparked fierce controversy over their environmental and legal implications. Critics label the combined impact as “ecological…

Doncaster’s energy is under siege by eco-zealots pushing a net-zero scam that’s failing us! 😡 Solar farms like Fenwick and grid plans at Thorpe Marsh sound green but flop in our cloudy winters, risking blackouts and fires near the Nature Reserve, with over 26,500 residents within 5km at risk. Tween Bridge and Whitestone? More costly…

Building on the precarious state of the UK’s power grid, let’s dive deeper into why blackouts remain a looming threat and what this means specifically for the UK moving forward. The nation’s aging infrastructure, unpredictable weather, surging electricity demand, and reliance on intermittent renewables like solar paint a troubling picture. Here’s how these factors continue…

Doncaster is at the heart of Labour’s net-zero crusade, with sprawling solar farms like Fenwick, Tween Bridge, and Whitestone promising clean energy and green jobs. But beneath the glossy brochures and Ed Miliband’s lofty rhetoric lies a troubling reality: these projects are a costly oversight, delivering a fraction of their promised power while saddling Yorkshire…

Never trust Labour’s net zero narrative—especially Ed Miliband’s. Askern’s solar farm, a 5MW “green dream” sold with promises of powering homes and grazing sheep, is a decade-long con that’s left Doncaster households poorer while developers cash in. Miliband, our own MP, pushes this costly ideology over Askern’s working-class families. Here’s why Labour’s net zero is…

🚨 A Silent Crisis Beneath Our Feet A groundbreaking study published in Science reveals a disturbing reality: between 14% and 17% of the world’s cropland—approximately 242 million hectares—is contaminated with toxic levels of heavy metals such as arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, copper, nickel, and lead. This contamination poses significant health risks to up to 1.4…

Britain is walking blindly into an energy disaster. While ministers talk about “green growth” and “net zero leadership,” the reality on the ground is this: we’re building thousands of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) across the country — not as a solution, but to cover up the failure of our renewables-only strategy. BESS: A £6…

The answer: because we’re paying for it three times over. While we’re told the shift to green energy will “save the planet,” what they don’t tell us is that it’s crippling ordinary people, driving up energy bills, and lining the pockets of elites and corporations. Here’s how the scam works: 1️⃣ You Pay to Use…

What I would like to happen To abandon the ideological commitment to Net Zero by 2050 and replace it with a cost-effective, sovereign energy and infrastructure strategy that prioritises national interest, affordability, and industrial productivity — not global virtue-signalling.Why Net Zero Must Go along with the quangos and Denz Cost: Net Zero is projected to…

And how ideology, not science, is shaping our energy future The world is accelerating into a new energy era — embracing nuclear innovation, hydrogen technology, and advanced storage systems that promise clean, reliable, and scalable power. Yet here in the UK, we’re still clinging to a comforting illusion: that solar panels can somehow power our…

Britain needs an energy policy based on facts, not ideology. The government must admit Net Zero is failing before it’s too late.SMRs: The Reliable, Affordable Energy Solution Unlike solar, wind, and battery storage (BESS), Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) offer a constant, stable power supply—without the massive costs and land destruction. Here’s how they compare: The…

The Tween Bridge Bombshell: What the Diagram Tells Us I recently attended the public consultation for the Tween Bridge Solar Farm. What’s being proposed is massive: ⚡ 800 megawatts of solar generation 🔋 400 megawatts of battery storage ❓ Still no confirmed grid connection — despite the scale and cost To truly understand what’s at…

The UK government is betting everything on wind and solar, pushing for 120 GW of wind power and 70 GW of solar. But what happens when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine? We found out in December 2024, when renewables provided just 10% of the UK’s energy needs on some days. 🔴…