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

Standing on Morthen Lane, overlooking the peaceful sweep of fields that fall gently into the Uley Brook valley, you can feel what’s at stake.This landscape is open, beautiful, and quintessentially South Yorkshire — rolling farmland, hedgerows shaped by generations, and long sightlines reaching across to the Penny Hill turbines on the horizon.It is a landscape…

Introduction For years, the British public has been told that solar energy is cheap, clean, and the key to our energy future. Successive governments, the Climate Change Committee (CCC), and environmental campaigners have promoted vast ground-mounted solar farms as the answer to decarbonisation. Yet when we look past the slogans and examine what is actually…

Germany showed the world what happens when the public money stops Britain is next Germany was meant to be the global poster-child for offshore wind.Billions spent.Endless political cheerleading.Huge promises of “cheap green power.”Then Berlin pulled back the subsidies.RWE walked away from offshore projects almost overnight. No subsidies, no turbines.No taxpayer guarantees, no investors.It wasn’t a…

There are moments when political satire stops being entertainment and becomes prophecy.One resurfaced clip from Yes, Prime Minister (2013) — aired the same year Ed Davey pushed the Energy Act through Parliament — has suddenly aged like a leaked Cabinet memo. It opens with a perfectly cynical exchange:“Global warming — is it real?”“I don’t know.”“I…

There comes a moment in every national folly when the scale of the mistake becomes impossible to ignore. For Britain’s energy experiment, that moment is now.We are told ,repeatedly, insistently ,that Ed Miliband’s Clean Power 2030 vision is bold, necessary, urgent. That Britain must build wind turbines and solar panels at a pace unseen in…

For years, we were told the energy transition would be “cheap” and “inevitable.” Yet pensioners across Britain face an ugly winter choice: freeze or feed. This isn’t just the result of global markets or bad luck. It’s the predictable outcome of a financial system pension funds included that’s been nudged, mandated, and morally browbeaten into…

Two headlines landed this week on the same story, told two very different ways.The Telegraph: ‘Surge in rooftop blazes sparks concern over Miliband’s solar panel boom’The Guardian: predictably cheering on solar expansion and burying risks in the footnotes, calling opposition “anti-green scaremongering”.Same issue. Opposite tone. One raises questions, the other waves the ideology flag.But behind…

The truth behind “green energy” that destroys our most precious carbon storesFor years, the British public has been told that wind farms are a simple, clean answer to climate change. Turbines on remote hillsides ,out of sight, out of mind ,harvesting free wind and powering the nation without harming a soul.It’s a neat story.But as…

For more than a decade, the UK has been told that wind and solar would deliver cheap, secure energy. That they would insulate us from global price shocks. That they represented the “inevitable future.” Yet here we are in late 2025 , and the façade is cracking. Record copper prices, soaring grid costs, investor fatigue,…

Britain has reached a moment that would once have been unthinkable in a fair and functioning democracy. After years of government policy driving energy prices to historic highs, after standing charges ballooned, after grid levies, renewable subsidies and Net Zero taxes piled onto bills, and after millions of low-income households were pushed into energy poverty…

For fifteen years, Britain was told to suspend disbelief: electrify everything, import the hardware, the grid will cope, bills will fall, green jobs will bloom. What we actually built was dependency, fragility, and inflation. Now the tone in boardrooms and ministries is shifting. Not because they’ve seen the light — because they’ve followed the money.…

Miliband’s clean-power dream and the looming AR7 subsidy round, will push bills up and reliability down. The truth is finally catching up with the green illusion. Even the Government has quietly admitted that wind generation will deliver far less power than promised. Yet Ed Miliband, still living in the 1990s era of subsidy economics, is…

📉 Real Numbers Not Slogans Installed solar capacity: ~21 GWTypical October output: ~1.5 GW in daylight Evening peak output: 0 GW Annual capacity factor: around 10% December capacity factor: can fall below 1%Backup required: nearly 1:1 for all solar capacity True cost of expansion to 45 GW: £100 billion+ once grid, curtailment, and backup are…

Across the world, citizens are told that “Net Zero” is an act of moral urgency — a noble crusade to save the planet. But behind the language of sacrifice, a very different story has unfolded. It is a story of power, profit, and control ,where climate policy has been engineered around a single unit of…

The disciples of Tony Blair are back at it, spinning a broken energy policy like snake oil salesmen who won’t admit the bottle’s empty. In their Telegraph article, Ryan Wain and Tone Langengen ,both senior figures at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, try to repackage failure as “pragmatism.” They call it “Cheaper Power…

The political class has learned nothing. After nearly two decades of spiralling energy costs, grid chaos, and Net Zero ideology driving bad decisions, both major parties are still offering Britain fantasy energy strategies. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard laid it out bluntly in The Telegraph this week: gas turbines are scarce, expensive, and delayed. Wind and solar look…

📉 Real Numbers Not Slogans Installed solar capacity: ~21 GWTypical October output: ~1.5 GW in daylight Evening peak output: 0 GW Annual capacity factor: around 10% December capacity factor: can fall below 1%Backup required: nearly 1:1 for all solar capacity True cost of expansion to 45 GW: £100 billion+ once grid, curtailment, and backup are…

Yes — reality is finally catching up with ideology. For years, the UK’s Net Zero strategy has been built on a foundation of legal targets, not engineering readiness…On subsidy commitments, not cost discipline…And on political slogans, not grid capacity.Now, that house of cards is starting to shake. The latest move by Ed Miliband ,telling offshore…

South Yorkshire has always been resilient.We’ve stood through pit closures, broken promises, poverty, and political betrayal. We powered this country once, and it came at a cost — the land, the air, the rivers, and the health of the people who lived here.And now, they want to take what little remains.Developers are quietly circling thousands…