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

Floating wind’s “great hope” just collapsed and it wasn’t activists, local communities, or politicians who killed it. It was the market.When Shell can’t even give away a supposedly “world-class” 3GW ScotWind lease, the signal to the energy world is deafening:👉 The renewables gold rush is over.👉 The subsidies have run dry.👉 And without taxpayer money,…

The Image That Misled a Nation.In October 2025, The Guardian published an article titled “Supply boom in cheaper renewables will seal end of fossil fuel era, says IEA.” It was illustrated with a striking photograph rows of mirrored panels stretching across a sun-drenched desert, converging on a gleaming central tower.To most readers, the image symbolised…

For years we’ve been told the same story: the world’s financial institutions are marching in lockstep toward Net Zero, private capital is lining up behind renewables, and the global economy is shifting toward “clean power” whether people like it or not. That narrative collapsed this month, and the Financial Times finally published what many inside…

1. Overview: A System Built on Assumptions Meets Reality The UK’s energy system is repeatedly described as being on a clear pathway toward full decarbonisation. Government claims of a “clean power system by 2030” and a “zero-carbon grid by 2035” rely on an assumption that wind, solar and batteries can collectively displace fossil fuels while…

When politicians start admitting that the “consensus is gone” on climate policy, something fundamental has shifted. That phrase , used by Keir Starmer in Brazil this week , was not a throwaway line. It was a reluctant acknowledgment that the political, financial, and engineering foundations of Net Zero have started to crumble. What was announced…

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…