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

Britain’s energy crisis is no longer about fuel. It is no longer even about technology. It is about systems, incentives, and financial structures that have drifted so far from physical reality that they now require political management to survive. No company better illustrates this than Octopus Energy. The poster child of the UK’s Net Zero…

The next time you wince at the price of a loaf of bread or a basket of groceries, remember this: Britain is deliberately destroying the people who grow its food. Not by accident. Not by neglect. But by policy. We are told this is about the environment, about “transition”, about “sustainability”. In reality, it is…

Spain has just published the academic proof that battery storage collapses under its own weight. Across the UK , from Scotland to the South West , planners are approving exactly the same mistake at industrial scale. For years, Britain’s energy debate has been dominated by a comforting idea: that if we simply build enough batteries,…

By Shane Oxer — Campaigner for fairer and affordable energy For years, the British public has been told that the obstacles to Net Zero are merely political: planning delays, local objections, or a lack of “ambition”. If only the system moved faster, we are told, the transition would be painless and inevitable. But that story…

Britain’s energy policy has been sold to the public as a patriotic investment in affordability, security and decarbonisation. Ministers promise that renewables will bring down bills, drive investment and protect us from volatile gas markets. They even point to record offshore wind auctions and optimistic jobs figures as proof the transition is on track.tell a…

By Shane OxerCampaigner for fairer and affordable energy Kevin Hollinrake’s recent article arguing that Britain should protect its best farmland from solar farms is well-meaning, reasonable in tone , and completely detached from the reality of the system his party built and still governs under. This is not, as he seems to think, a planning…

After a decade of browbeating governments, investors and industries into abandoning reliable power, the architects of the green transition are finally starting to admit what many engineers warned from the start: you cannot run a modern economy on intermittent energy alone. Larry Fink of BlackRock has now said the quiet part out loud. Rushing headlong…

There is a moment in every insurgent movement when it must decide whether it is going to replace the system or be absorbed by it.Nigel Farage’s decision to attend Davos looks uncomfortably like that moment.For years, “Davos” has not just been a place. It has been a symbol. A shorthand for a ruling class that…

For more than a decade, the British public has been assured that Net Zero would be affordable, even beneficial: that renewables are “the cheapest form of energy ever”, that the transition would “pay for itself”, and that any costs would be modest, temporary and manageable. That story is now collapsing under the weight of arithmetic.…

For years, we’ve been told that our pension funds are being “invested responsibly”  that they are helping to build a greener, fairer, more sustainable future while securing our retirement. But a disturbing truth is now emerging:Your pension is increasingly invested in the very policies and projects that are making your cost of living higher, your…

The offshore wind auction that exposes the great Net Zero infrastructure fraud. By Shane Oxer — Campaigner for fairer and affordable energy This week’s government announcement on offshore wind contracts was presented as a historic victory for British “energy sovereignty”. In reality, it was something very different: another large batch of paper power stations approved…

If you listen to ministers, Britain is in a race against time to “save the planet”. Every policy announcement, every planning override, every electricity bill surcharge is justified in the name of climate emergency. And yet, when one examines the actual numbers, the story collapses into something far closer to national self-harm than global salvation.…

By Shane Oxer — Campaigner for fairer and affordable energy China has just demonstrated, at continental scale, what happens when governments decide they can redesign nature. For decades, Beijing has pursued one of the largest environmental engineering projects in history: the so-called “Great Green Wall”, a vast reforestation programme intended to halt the spread of…

At 11:15am today, the truth about Britain’s energy system was laid bare in cold, hard numbers.National Grid data showed UK electricity demand running at around 42.5GW. Of that, 26.6GW — nearly two thirds — was being supplied by gas. Wind, solar and hydro combined were contributing less than 9%. Take a moment to let that…

Shane Oxer.  Campaigner for fairer and affordable energy. “A megawatt that cannot be delivered is not energy security. It is an accounting fiction.” In January 2026, a single statistic exposed the structural failure at the heart of Britain’s energy policy. Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm, Seagreen  a 1 GW flagship project off the Angus coast…

1. For more than a decade, the public has been told that the path to a clean, cheap, and secure energy system is mainly a matter of political will: build more wind, build more solar, add batteries, and upgrade the grid as we go. That story assumes the network can always be made to “catch…

1. What the government admits , quietly , in its own Solar RoadmapThe DESNZ UK Solar Roadmap (June 2025) contains a series of admissions that directly undermine the public narrative of rapid, deliverable progress. First, it concedes that grid constraints are already preventing delivery:“This demand, combined with network capacity challenges, has created a connection queue…

For years, critics of the UK’s Net Zero strategy were dismissed as pessimists, naysayers, or politically motivated. This week, that narrative finally collapsed. Not because of an activist campaign or opposition speech, but because the engineering supply chain itself has broken cover. When the world’s leading manufacturer of high-voltage transformers publicly warns that Britain may…

Ed Miliband’s energy strategy is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions. Ministers continue to boast about approving vast amounts of new “clean power”, yet official grid registers show that many of these projects are not scheduled to connect for years and some may never operate as promised at all. This is not because…