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

Central planning. No consent. No veto. No accountability. China’s infrastructure model is simple:A central agency draws a map.The state decides what goes where.Local governments must comply.Land is repurposed instantly.Communities have no right of objection.The goal is “delivery at all costs”.This model works only because China has: no local democracy no independent courts no private land…

Summary Britain is facing a profound, unprecedented shift in how national infrastructure is planned and approved.The combination of:the Strategic Spatial Energy Plan (SSEP)the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.Ofgem’s new connections framework.NESO’s “Gate 1/Gate 2” centralised approvals.creates a system where unelected bodies can dictate the shape of entire regions , without parliamentary approval, local consent, or democratic…

Most people assume “electricity is electricity”. It isn’t.The UK grid was built around a type of generation that stabilises itself, supports the system, and keeps frequency rock-solid. When that type of generation is removed and replaced with technologies that cannot provide the same stability, the risks grow — and the costs explode.Here’s the difference in…

A forensic demolition of NESO’s new “Clean Power 2030” pipeline using their own word. Introduction: Welcome to Britain’s New Magical RailwayYesterday, NESO (the National Energy System Operator) unveiled what it called a “once-in-a-generation reform” of how energy projects are connected to the grid.Ed Miliband immediately claimed victory — saying every solar farm, wind farm and…

For decades, Britain’s industrial heartlands powered this country. Steel from Sheffield and Scunthorpe built our ships, our railways, our skyscrapers — and our global reputation for engineering excellence. Skilled workers in places like Rotherham, Sheffield, Port Talbot, and Teesside forged a living for their families and carried the country on their shoulders.So when the Government…

Dr Shane Fudge’s latest piece in The Conservative Woman – exposing how universities have become engines of climate ideology rather than bastions of scientific inquiry – has struck a nerve. Not because the revelations are surprising, but because they confirm what so many people have instinctively known for years.For all the talk of “settled science”,…

🌍 Your Theory: Humans Don’t Know Enough to Claim They Understand the Planet 1. Humans are extremely new Modern Homo sapiens: ~300,000 years old. Life on Earth: ~3.8 billion years old.Deep-ocean systems: billions of years old. Climate cycles: hundreds of millions of years.That means humans have existed for 0.007% of Earth’s history. Put differently: If…

A Political Revolution Disguised as EnvironmentalismFor more than a century, the British public has been bombarded with dramatic warnings of climate catastrophe. Newspapers from the 1930s, 1950s, 1970s and beyond issued panicked predictions — seas rising fifty feet, Antarctica collapsing, Britain drowning, ice ages coming, ice ages going. None of it materialised. The rhetoric changed…

Great British Energy (GBE) has been presented as a flagship national project ,a bold plan to deliver 15 GW of “clean energy generation and storage” by 2030, supposedly lowering bills and strengthening Britain’s energy security.¹ But when examined against the operational realities of the national grid, GBE begins to look uncomfortably similar to HS2: a…

For years, ministers have insisted that the shift to renewable energy would lower bills. The public has been told repeatedly that wind and solar are the “cheapest form of power”, that the transition will save every household hundreds of pounds, and that the only reason bills remain high is because of international gas prices. Last…

How One Woman’s Stand Against England’s Largest Wind Farm Became Case Law And Why Her Warning Matters More Than Ever In the late 1990s, before the Climate Change Act, Net Zero, carbon budgets, or renewable ideology existed, one woman in County Durham saw exactly what was coming. Her name was Mary Elizabeth Mann, B.Sc. ,…

For years, the public has been told that high energy bills are the result of global gas prices or geopolitical instability. But the numbers tell a different story. The real driver of Britain’s energy crisis is not the fuel itself — it is the Net Zero policy framework that has deliberately inflated the cost of…

Britain is being told that the energy transition is failing because we are “stuck in fossil time” — that fossil fuels made life too fast and too convenient, and now Net Zero simply needs more patience. This is nonsense. The transition isn’t delayed because people expect speed; it’s delayed because the strategy is technically impossible.¹…

The latest grid data tells a story that no amount of political messaging or PR spin can hide. Despite more than twenty gigawatts of installed solar capacity across the UK, actual solar output in winter collapses to a fraction of that headline figure. The screenshot above shows solar contributing just 0.74 GW, barely 2% of…

In every decade before Net Zero mania took hold, the electricity grid was understood as a system. A synchronous AC system built on simple principles: large rotating generators—coal, gas, nuclear, hydro—all spinning at 3,000rpm, producing power while naturally stabilising the entire grid. The physics was elegant.The engineering was proven.And the stability was free. These machines…

By Shane Oxer Campaigner for fairer and affordable energy Introduction The United Kingdom has just recorded one of its largest annual increases in solar capacity, adding 1.9 GW of new photovoltaic installations in the 12 months to October 2025.[1] Total installed solar capacity now stands at 20.7 GW, with a surge of large utility-scale solar…

Britain is entering the most dangerous phase of its modern energy history and the warning lights are now flashing red. This week’s analysis from the National Energy System Operator (NESO), reported by The Telegraph, confirms what engineers, analysts, and campaigners have been warning for years: The UK is on course for severe gas shortages, just…

By Shane Oxer — Campaigner for fairer and affordable energy Introduction: Government by Spreadsheet Yorkshire is being told, not asked, how it must live. The Local Area Energy Plans (LAEPs) for York and North Yorkshire lay out, with startling confidence, how our homes will be heated, how our countryside will be carved up, and where…

🌾 1. Yorkshire’s Iconic Landscapes Are Under Attack Here is the Yorkshire that millions of people come to see every year. the Yorkshire that generations have fought to protect:These dry-stone walls, rolling pastures, farmsteads and open views are not “empty spaces” for solar developers to colonise.Yet the LAEPs label huge swathes of this land as…