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Great British Energy Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 2 - Commons' votes in Parliament - UK Parliament 01/04/2025

Extraordinary that here we are, a quarter of the way into the 21st century, and 314 Members of the UK Government just voted in favour of slavery. 🤯

How is it that something as brilliant as solar energy generation could be keeps being turned around by our leaders into something disastrous for nature and for our fellow citizens?

Great British Energy Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 2 - Commons' votes in Parliament - UK Parliament Great British Energy Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 2

“You can’t be more stupid, than to make England a solar country” says Geologist Ian Plimer. England only has 14,000 hours of sunshine per year on average (about 60 days). How can we provide energy security? Ed Milliband calls them Solar Farms - Farms are productive and produce something that is useful. Destroying farmland to put in Chinese made solar panels is not sensible. #stoplimedown #solaronrooftops #protectourcountryside #wiltshire 19/11/2024

We have to start doing solar without waste.

“You can’t be more stupid, than to make England a solar country” says Geologist Ian Plimer. England only has 14,000 hours of sunshine per year on average (about 60 days). How can we provide energy security? Ed Milliband calls them Solar Farms - Farms are productive and produce something that is useful. Destroying farmland to put in Chinese made solar panels is not sensible. #stoplimedown #solaronrooftops #protectourcountryside #wiltshire

Photos from CARE - Campaign Against Rural Exploitation's post 22/10/2024

Stayed in France 🇫🇷 a few weeks ago and it was great seeing solar where it should be:

- covering the local supermarket car park and
- off farmland and on farm buildings.

In France car parks with 80+ spaces now have to have panels. This is expected to provide power equivalent to 10 nuclear generators.

❤️ solar that doesn’t waste resources.

12/10/2024

This is the field that was saved from industrialisation - this time.

It has been sustainably farmed by tenant farmers for a number of years and ultimately it was too hard for the developer to keep trying to make the case that piling panels into the land would somehow enhance biodiversity here.

However, the cabling it has installed to link up with its next solar site along the road runs through regeneratively-farmed land.

And just out of view beyond the ancient woodland that was the largest roosting site for Red Kite in Essex last winter (maybe not this…?) will sit the shipping containers of lithium batteries.

As the CEO of one of Germany’s largest solar developers told investors earlier this year, it would take years to get permission to do this sort of development there. Hence he absolutely recommended the UK as the place to be for farmland development.

Incidentally, in 2023 Germany installed as much solar as the UK has in total, because there they focus on getting it on rooftops, and that’s way quicker.

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