Roger Vickers

Solar power being reliable in the Sunshine State is surely not a surprise, but cannot be taken as a recipe for success everywhere, as the UK government appears to believe.

28.01.2025 22:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

And just as the project is awarded, out come these kind of headlines.
Stinks!

26.01.2025 21:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Kid yourselves not that this will bring either energy security or cheap electricity - simply more reward to big business and assets to the already very rich and control to the powerful. It is a disgrace

26.01.2025 19:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The Heckington scheme has been passed by EM and the true colours of the situation revealed. The company Ecocity picks up the contract. The owner being an enormous donor to the Labour party. So far
30,000 acres face industrialisation across the county.(approximately 20,000 football pitches).

26.01.2025 19:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

These developments are by and large on productive agricultural land, vital to the sustainability and security of the UK food supply let alone the rural environment and communities. Ed Milliband appears to be out of control in his haste to override all local concerns and planning constraints.

26.01.2025 19:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Go-ahead given for Heckington Fen and West Burton solar projects One senior Lincolnshire county councillor has called the government approval a "slap in the face".

BBC News - Solar farms are 'slap in the face' - councillor
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The huge scale and number of solar farms being proposed as National Infrastructure projects in Lincolnshire is out of hand.

26.01.2025 19:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0