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Monday 15 July 2024

Miliband Pushes Through Britain’s Biggest Solar Farm Prompting Food Security Fears

 Ed Miliband has pushed through Britain’s biggest solar farm on green land despite the objections of officials, prompting fears he is endangering the nation’s food security. The Telegraph has more.

The Energy Secretary’s decision to overturn the planning inspectorate and give the green light to the controversial project in rural eastern England has sparked fury from MPs and campaigners.

The scheme will see Sunnica, an energy firm, building a 2,792-acre solar farm and energy storage infrastructure around several villages in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, providing power for 100,000 homes. Mr. Miliband has also given the go-ahead along to two solar farms in Lincolnshire.

It is feared this will be the first of many further decisions that will sacrifice vast amounts of farmland to Net Zero energy projects....<<<Read More>>>...