Is the UK UNDER ATTACK from Solar Farm Applications? What's going on in HEREFORD?

Plans lodged for solar farm on agricultural land
Plans for a new 30-hectare solar farm in Herefordshire have taken a step forward.
www.bbc.co.uk/...
An application for the proposed 20-megawatt site has been submitted for farmland north of Stoke Edith following a ruling that an Environment Impact Assessment study was not required by virtue, according to Herefordshire Council in April, of its size and location.
Renewable energy firm Anesco seeks permission for solar panels, transformer units, a control room and grid connection equipment.
Comments on the application can be made via the Herefordshire Council webpage until 25 July.
The project is earmarked for land beside the Hereford-Ledbury railway line, a site where Anesco says the “substantial environmental, economic, and social benefits outweigh its position within an area of flood risk".
Anesco said its development would not increase the risk of flooding within or outside the site.
The firm added the project would "not result in any increased pollution of any form, with no significant producers of sound or light proposed on site”.
It stated “enhanced” hedgerows along with tree and scrub planting would "ensure that landscape impacts are reduced where possible”.
Land beneath the development would "continue to retain an agricultural use with sheep grazing being feasible”, Anesco said, adding
the loss of farmland “would be temporary and reversible”.
If given the go-ahead, lorries would access the site during a 48 to 50-week construction period via minor adjacent roads.
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Now, I’ve learnt from making these videos that when a company name pops up it’s best to pop it into a search engine followed by the word ‘scandal’ or ‘controversy’ just to see what results come up.
Typing in ‘Anesco Controversy’ gives us…
Hundreds stand against battery storage plan for Green Belt in Great Barr
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Controversial West Burton solar farm plans reach key milestone
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Solar panel farm switched on in New Forest
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More than 100 objections lodged against solar farm near Alresford
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[@jagracershoestring609]

Its a done deal. I live in an area of farmland covered in them. I challenged the council, who said the Government see it as national infrastructure, and they have no voice to stop it. The company fronting it is based in a bedroom somewhere, has no assets or staff, they take a commission to get planning permission, sell it on to a large energy company, who sell it by a loan, to a Chines hedge fund. The second company gets grants and sells Carbon Credits traded on the Chicago Mercantile Trading Floor internationally to companies fiddling their Carbon Emissions, using a complicated formulas. The foundations are supposed to be costed, but they will never be removed after twenty years. They always talk of Sheep Grazing under the panels, but Sheep get scorched by the heat the panels generate. The Farmers get £1000 an acre rent for the land, so a 100 acre field gives £100,000 a year rent, why farm and get less? The Public lose footpaths and amenity of scenic views, but the Hedge Funds could not care a toss what the peasants think.

[@BionicRusty]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting. 👍

[@jonhollis2447]

That's the most plausible explanation I've heard so far, and definitely where all this is going. I would make 1 amend, its not just Chinese hedge funds, its all hedge funds and other the like. Blackrock and Vanguard etc etc

[@battlebbot]

Solar is a very, very costly scam! Several of the UK councils who have gone or are close to bankruptcy have invested large amounts of taxpayer money in these con jobs. "Planet of the Humans" by Michael Moore shows how the con works............................

[@jagracershoestring609]

@@jonhollis2447 I tend to agree, further, the host country loses control of the asset, and the finance. In Mozambique, coalmines were dug out by Indian multi-national companies, then closed after finance became unavailable, pulled out leaving the host country to cover the cost of unemployment, and environmental impact.

[@wearetheremnants1615]

Pray for grapefruit size hail 🙏🏻

[@ianchalklen1047]

Drive your old car and it’s a environmental problem. Carpet acres of farmland with solar panels and environmentally “nothing to see here”

[@Tom_Hadler]

Yes, and all very sinister

[@peternewton6977]

Eating bug's next Solent green

[@AndyLongden]

I'd like to drive my old car through a solar farm. See how well those panels hold up. 🤣😂

[@nathansmith7153]

Another goon that doesn't understand that they grow crops or raise animals underneath.

[@robhudson1501]

Yeah well the next 5 fields will be re wilded so it balances out

[@Bridget410]

Solar panels should NOT be on farmland. Put them on buildings and carparks first. Roofs of industrial buildings and shopping centres.

[@ollyperrooo]

Exactly!! If they're so hellbent on their ridiculous solar plan maybe they should cover every roof with solar panels instead. They won't do that of course because they'll say it wouldn't make economic sense what with all the wiring and disruption to roads etc etc. However, taking away food production land makes even less economic sense because it'll make food even more expensive. Nothing is done for people, it's all for their Net Zero death and for the deep pockets of corporations. This has to be a line in the sand because they are threatening to starve us leading to famine and malnutrition and if anyone came to your backdoor wielding a knife, you would defend yourself and family to the death.

[@rogerphelps9939]

Not enough area. Solar panels on farmland do not preclude the use of the land for grazing and many other uses. Farmers can make more money producing green energy than fairly useless things like producing beef.

[@loonaticsrunningtheassylum]

Stop putting them anywhere.. as far as "green" goes they're anything but..

[@mrradman2986]

@@rogerphelps9939 The idiocy is strong with this one.

[@rogerphelps9939]

@@xonerate371 Clearly you are clueless about the economics of solar farms. A 25sq metre solar array will be rated at 4kw and produce about 4000kwh per annum. At 5p per kwh that is £200. Suppose you have a hectare of land 50% covered by solar panels. The return is £40,000 per annum. Solar panels are now about £400 per kilowatt so the capital cost of the panels for one hectare is around £300k. The return is far in excess of anything that could be had from food production. That is why there are loads of solar farms around where I live in South Somerset. They give farmers a proper income and are not very obtrusive either. Solar farms are a no brainer.

[@brucecrawford3800]

What kick back are the council getting for not doing a study.

[@markchapman1757]

Dodgy backhanders someone has had their palm's lined with silver

[@brianburns9190]

worst than solar farms is the battery storage facility that they are building for the farms.the facilities are a major fire risk

[@Jchathe]

Its ALL about the money and of course the food shortage agenda

[@freddieqmercury5961]

Good work Geoff, keep exposing these companies.

[@Craig-wp3pz]

My village has 5 solar farms, finished the last one about a month ago, all have been built on PRIME farm land, a loss of grazing areas, and yes, they're a 'fire & forget' installation, even the grass cutting and panel cleaning contracts are a scam..... And yes, the rat population increase is notable,

[@DwaynePipes]

Five solar farms!!!!! 😲 😢 Where is that?

[@Craig-wp3pz]

@@DwaynePipes Warwickshire

[@DwaynePipes]

@@Craig-wp3pz Warwickshire is a village!?🤔

[@Craig-wp3pz]

@@DwaynePipes Warwickshire contains many villages, and most of them have multiple solar farms now, and applications for more....., Bishops Itchington, Deppers Bridge,Ladbroke, Gaydon, Fenny Compton, Bascot, Fenny Compton, if you drive the 'old main roads, Fosse way, A5/Watling St, you will see literally HUNDREDS of solar farms, regardless of which county you're in.....

[@PhDGoldVee]

☹️

[@lesliecarter4295]

Miliband is no friend of the farmers…!

[@lat1419]

Or shipping, or Whales or fish or environment.

[@macca9770]

Miliband will sign them off now…..carrying on his Soro climate change act from 2008.

[@michaelpaige4336]

Better place is on every house in the country NOT on prime farmland

[@rogerphelps9939]

Wrong. They should be on every suitable roof but there is not enough room.

[@KovietUnionDefector]

Just imagine sheep being allowed to move around a solar farm. I am a horse owner and my Grandfather a pig farmer. All I know about animals that graze is they are bitten by flies or with sheep, ticks. They then need to scratch the hell out of their bites on hard surfaces. Naturally trees. But these potential sheep will have a million pound solar farm to rub hard on and destroy and most probably injure themselves on the hard sharp metal edges. Where is this being done? Show us a sucessful example of long term sheep farming amongst these panel arrays??? I bet there are no examples of this being viable.

[@user-hd4vn4kf4n]

Yep, Oz Farmer here. You are absolutely right

[@cedhome7945]

My boss puts sheep on a solar farm it's near melksham in Wiltshire.....so far no problems after 3 years

[@davecooper3238]

@@cedhome7945I know a Warwickshire farmer who also grazes sheep under a solar farm.

[@bobstirling6885]

Many solar farm installers specifically prohibit grazing between the rows, they set it up for a topper to maintain the undergrowth. If they are installed for grazing they are raised higher above the ground generally.

[@rogerphelps9939]

Rubbish. Solar panels are mounted on supports several feet above the ground if you haven't noticed. Plenty of things for sheep to rub againstt if they really do which I doubt seeing that sheep are often grazed in very large fields surrounded by hedges and not a tree in sight.

[@dangermouse9348]

I believe that after 3 years the land is considered a brown site and may then be built upon.

[@bobstirling6885]

After the 25 year contract it can indeed be deemed brownfield, depending on the specific planning conditions. Some insist on the land being returned to original state, but the solar companies with that obligation will be long gone in 25 years.

[@rogerphelps9939]

Rubbish.

[@CarlosArruda77]

The problem is Geoff, these companies, these big players, they have friends in high places! Unlike some other countries that's acceptable here in the UK. If we tackled head on the so called "conflict of interest", the problem wouldn't arise. Corruption at its best and it's us the poor people that will pay for it one way or another.

[@rogerphelps9939]

The fossil fuel industry had willing acolytes like Geoff Buys ars who are clueless about global warming and just wish to carry on as normal. His grandchildren will curse him.

[@rogerphelps9939]

No they don't. They provided farmers witth a much needed income from a pretty small proporttion of their land.

[@philipbellew9645]

Having witnessed this in Wiltshire there are a few observations. Grass fails to grow well under the panels (because they are always in shadow) and the photos of wild flower meadows in their brochures don't work because the fields are too fertile for wild flowers to thrive. The applicant often sells their option on to other companies once approved so they promise the world but its not them who end up building it. Most solar farms are approved for a 25 year period only and the site needs to be put back to how it was before they arrived. How they will reinstate 100year old oaks cut down to stop the overshadowing of the solar panels puzzles me. Local Authorities are so out of their depth when dealing with solar and wind farm companies. The planners know about loft extensions but nothing about this new planning blight. Glint and glare (a technical term) can affect overflying aircraft. The transformer stations are noisy and the security fencing surrounding these sites in the open countryside is akin to a prison.

[@philipbant657]

"YES" We are under attack on more than one front!!!

[@gss6531]

And it's from our own government, no one else.

[@PaulDavies-wv9el]

Our government plan to starve it's population

[@TheElizabethashby]

THE UK HAS COME OUT OF THE FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE GOD HELP US ALL AMEN

[@therealdojj]

Solar farms are great if they are on the sides on motorways like in Europe But on farming land, that's a big no no

[@hectorshouse7348]

They are NOT great…they are NOT green🤣

[@jontownsend8090]

They are also great where the sun shines, the uk and sunshine don't have an intimate relationship with each other.

[@therealdojj]

@@hectorshouse7348 I know they are not green, they are silver, or black, or whatever anti glare thing they have on them 😁

[@turokforever007]

@@jontownsend8090 Also been blocking the sun.

[@loonaticsrunningtheassylum]

They're are utter destruction of the planet... They're is nothing good about them

[@vinnylee878]

Solor panels: one of the 4 horseman of the apocalypse

[@kevinmott6205]

Doomed❤

[@Two_BSW_Aeros]

Famine

[@user-cl7cg8pe3u]

solar panels work a house, ive had them for 14 years here in spain. The problem is all the scams they have loaded ontop of that

[@jameschambers6975]

Moreover, in a country that has had almost permanent cloud cover in the spring, summer, and coming autumn months. At their most productive, PV panels provide infinitesimal amounts of DC energy, which has to be converted to AC current. Conventional energy production, however, must still remain in situ to fill in the huge gaps during our long dark cloud covered skies.

[@user-cl7cg8pe3u]

@@jameschambers6975 well there is no climate change, but they do control the weather

[@stuartbailey5665]

Solar panels, if necessary, should only be installed on building roofs - and there are plenty of suitable commerial roofs, let alone private residence. Farm land should be preserved for food production.

[@ikweby9169]

Farmers get paid more to turn the land into things like this vs what they get for actually farming the land. if you can - try and speak to a farmer about this - many of them would have been approached for these projects.

[@marylauder3374]

Eating bugs is getting closer.

[@jamesdecross1035]

Solar Farms should be on roofs in urban areas. Such projects are funded by the Community Energy England (an amalgam of a rural and an urban fund), yet CEE is fighting to maintain its existence and not be cancelled.

[@larx4074]

As WE are paying for all of this, surely we should be getting FREE energy??..................oh, wait..............

[@hamshackleton]

and you know that pension you saved up for - all your working life, Starmer is going to take it to pay for something else.

[@larx4074]

@@hamshackleton Thankfully, I've been in receipt of my pension for several years, but I wouldn't put it past them to come after that tho'........... As for those who may well have their hard-earned pension "stolen", my deepest sympathies...........

[@nearlypastit2385]

@@larx4074 There are already rumblings from the Labour Party (and I believe the new chancellor, Rachael Reeves) about means testing recipients of the State Pension. They are only hiding behind the 'we must consider such a plan' shield as if they aren't already decided on that outcome (sow a seed, let people become accustomed to the idea, then impliment the plan ! ). Yet again, those who have been prudent and industrious during their working lives will suffer to fund those that have been less so (and of course those that are genuinely more unfortunate. I have less of an axe to grind for the latter). 🤬

[@dudmanjohn]

Why should we ? We subsidise farmers and don't get free food. Anyway, that's how wholesale energy prices are set.

[@larx4074]

@@dudmanjohn So subsidising farmers for no benefit makes it right??? Because the "system" says so?? But you are happy gifting your money to private companies and corporations to create a new business and to continue gifting them in perpetuity....no wonder you are poor.........

[@andyb6492]

Perfect place for solar panels is on top of all these enormous warehouses that keep springing up

[@SalemikTUBE]

I work for a firm that supplies goods to these pigs. Once farmland has been used for solar panels it becomes "brown field" and can later be used for anything.

[@angelmessenger8240]

So that's how they'll get round green field planning laws. Softly softly grabby land.

[@rogerphelps9939]

Utter bollocks. For starters you can run sheep pigs and poultry under them. You can even grow specialist crops that suit the microclimate.

[@noelward8047]

@@rogerphelps9939 Bollox ! Haha

[@andyxox4168]

@@rogerphelps9939 .. bollox, absolute bollox

[@Denise-vn8wz]

​@@rogerphelps9939Until a hail storm breaks all the panels and chemicals leach on to the ground. Duh!

[@Dadopersoblueboots]

After the removal of the solar pannels. You can build houses on that land. Its a fkn con.

[@rl3898]

That is the most likely option , well said.

[@edwardsierpowski3839]

Have you seen the report from BBC about Spain? They have a serious problem with overproduction of solar! Too many people have gone energy independent and the conglomerates and the government are losing revenue, tax money and industry kickbacks. So renewables are now bad!

[@graff8757]

If it's on the BBC it's BS

[@user-il6jm9mi4z]

We have a 74 acre solar farm coming to the Somerset levels on fertile farm land 😮

[@Eric_Hunt194]

Need Farmer Palmer from Viz to be real... "GET ORFF MOI LAAAHND!!!"

[@thathurt]

Precipitation and solar panels🤔 okay.

[@IANREA]

So my question is, why is there a limit on household solar, the limit on size, generating power, surely if a person wants their whole roof covered they can’t. Why are industrial, retail units not covered in them. Surely the likes of Tesco, large roof area, help offset the power used on its refrigerator, cold storage. It’s because they don’t want us benefiting from having control. A domestic use gets next to nothing for it’s uploaded power, but these solar farms gets better deals, grants

[@wecandothiswarriors]

Limits because they want to CONTROL you

[@hectorshouse7348]

A solar panel pays for its carbon footprint by the time it knackered…you think that’s green? Then they go to landfill🤣👍

[@loonaticsrunningtheassylum]

Because they know they don't work and wouldn't waste their money on them

[@chrisp7839]

It would be silly to drop into landfill, the component metals are worth money. I'm surprised they aren't having security issues being left in fields tbh. Large scale recycling is not yet set up as the panels last so long there aren't enough panels needing recycling yet. My 3.5kW panel system installed 10 years ago next month, are still generating 3.5 kW today, not even 5% reduction in power.

[@caterthun4853]

Limit on household electricity export is set to limit the electricity that can be handled by your supply. Commercial properties are different

[@Elsie-uy2kl]

There isn't enough sunshine for loads of solar farms and they should definitely not be on farmland or greenbelt or anywhere else thats vital to the area. We should protect farmland at all costs and any company that says it will return it to farmland is talking BS. 😔

[@simonshee5155]

Labour's got plans to weaken protections for the green belt. Intend to build houses & infrastructure to link green energy to the grid. Wave goodbye to the countryside.

[@rogerphelps9939]

So you have done the sums showing that there is not enough sunshine for solar farms, have you? No. Thought not. Funny, isn't it, that they are able to make a profit without subsidy. FYI, solar power is cheaper than nasty fossil fuel nattural gas.

[@kevinjones3900]

Cut the food production. Then bring more mouths to feed. Its not going to end well.

[@wecandothiswarriors]

That is what they want,hunger games..Good luck feeding yourself and your family..I have prepped for years and have plenty..BE SMART like the preppers..BUT be on your guard

[@hectorshouse7348]

It’s not supposed to end well… I don’t think you’re up to speed yet

[@johnlord7188]

It is the same here in East Anglia. What I cannot understand is why don’t they put solar farms on disused military airfields of which around East Anglia and Lincolnshire there are quite a few?

[@danb2529]

I lived in Stoke Edith myself about 30 years ago. The road junction there is so bad that the person who lives on the corner keeps a broom by their front door to sweep up the broken glass from the large number of accidents caused by vehicles coming out of the mentioned minor road onto the main Hereford-Ledbury road. Although the land might be classed as flood plain, I don't remember the area flooding in the 10 or so years I lived there.

[@josephshortt3171]

We need to talk Geoff I'm a Whistleblower and we are all in danger

[@richardcrookes6496]

Geoff we have the same thing hear in south Yorkshire there building large housing estates on prime farm land all around us. Who is granting all this planning permission?

[@sarcasmunlimited1570]

It's true that solar farms do not produce milk, but this doesn't stop solar farmers from milking the system and collecting large incentives and subsidies paid by taxpayers who don't want solar farms.

[@paulmuff9883]

Thanks for sharing this information we all need you and people like you to keep us informed about this important issue! 👍👍

[@tweed532DaveH]

Fylde having the same on greenbelt, firstly a Battery Storage on a farm and more seriously a 'cable pathway' from the beach head through farmland to a large sub station for a new offshore wind farm. Oh 2 Directors, of Spanish and Indian Nationality on the Companies House website for the Battery Storage Company have 'None' listed under 'Occupation'. Really? Reeves new Chancellor just announced tearing up planning laws to 'aid UK recovery'.Edit Ironic the midroll advert was for a solar company...🤔💩🇬🇧

[@geordimaul5380]

And I was expecting the first vid of the day about ID cards from labour

[@GeoffBuysCars]

Gimme 10 minutes... I'll do that one next.

[@chaseshadow]

Try not to let the fear porn affect you. Same crook, different hood.

[@gug1970]

Isnt it funny just how QUICK blair was with that old one. Its almost like he's paid by his masters and he couldn't wait.

[@sprograt]

Solar farms in the UK has anyone told them we only get 8 days of sunshine per year and the rest of the time it pi55es down. 😂

[@fremenondesand3896]

I find it interesting that the government says you have to register chickens now. Not that I have any. They're just fat pigeons that like my garden.

[@gss6531]

I'll take a dozen eggs please sir.

[@fremenondesand3896]

@@gss6531 dunno what you're talking about. Get me some cash and I'll see what I can do

[@wildthing6668813]

Applications are freely available to read on councils websites but most people don't look at them that's why so many applications go through unopposed!

[@stormbringer8334]

There are applications for big developments in Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Bucks!!

[@BRMCaptChaos]

Lime Down in Wiltshire is an unbelievable folly. Offshore business, UK money. And that’s before we even talk carbon.

[@davidaynsley7348]

When agricultural land is converted to solar panels the land becomes a brownfield sight so it can be developed for houses later. That is why they are usually close to roads.

[@user-kz6jt4xz6h]

Little brown envelopes ? It's strange all the environmental hoops a person wanting to build 1 house has to jump through before getting permission to build

[@picobyte]

Funfact the solar array behind our house has been build on farm land. They changed the official destination to industrial land for those solar panels.

[@timothyabraham13]

We put up the biggest Vestus wind turbine they produced in 2012, this included pouring 1000 tonnes of concrete to form the base...I wonder how much C02 that produced and how long it took the turbine to repay this C02 debt?

[@andrewspearey392]

One of the reasons for this explosion in solar farms is farmer lose huge amount of money trying to produce food. The tories have completely screwed farmers over. Any crap can be imported but uk farmers have to adhere to very strict rules

[@andrewkirk3522]

well with this new labour government you will see the more and the increase of building and more solar farms and also now with them wanting to reintroduce the building of onshore wind farms as well. And also with them wanting to reform and get rid of some red tape when it comes to planning and override local communities and councils and those decisions to be made more on a national level rather than decisions made at a local level so you will see more of these winds farms and solar farms being built

[@jameschambers6975]

It's not about energy pruduction per se, it's about expending our taxes on worthless schemes thus forcing what's left of the nation into destitution.

[@Magicspark2366]

Interesting how the first thing Labour are going to do is accelerate planning permissions..fat brown envelopes under the table there then...

[@fredfred2363]

Like your style and out of the box thinking- Search for "Company name" and "scandal" or "controversy". I do the same with peoples' names and "court" or "fined". Shows lots of interesting hidden results! Councils should do this for every and any application!

[@markbray2988]

Interesting how this energy company decided to call themselves something that from a distance resembles 'UNESCO' in the hope that we will all think that they are promoting world peace and security...

[@davidstevensasidewayslook8831]

Most councils don't check the company credentials of businesses making planning applications. Half the time the companies actually don't exist. The planning applications are actually illegal most of the time BUT the councils rubber stamp the applications without due diligence. They are BREAKING THE LAW.

[@MikeG-rh1lk]

Have a hammer party at the solar farm 😁

[@user-fz2gf1bg4d]

Hello Geoff thank you for all your great videos, I totally agree with you about the loss off top quality farmland being taken up for solar farms, I have just read an article in this wks farmers weekly magazine 5th July 2024 page 4 that meridian solar aims to build a750mw solar farm with battery storage on just over 1,000ha (just under 2,500 acres) Spalding Lincolnshire, please please get this out on your KZbin channel many thanks keep up the good work

[@ianmcconnell5973]

Just had a quick look on Companies House and it's rather interesting! There are quite a few "Anesco" entities, all registered at the same address, which always gets the spidey senses tingling! It looks very much like a paperwork only, money moving middleman outfit at first glance with the website listing addresses in Netherlands, Denmark and Germany too. A front for the subsidy collection plate perhaps?

[@rappers5719]

Here's a novelty thought. How about growing food instead? Just throwing it out there.

[@ReSauceFul86]

@geoffbuyscars you should look into the huge proposed Lime Down Solar "Farms" in Wiltshire if you haven't done so already. Multiple sites covering over 2,000 acres of land in total.

[@douglasb.5601]

100% agree Geoff, this move to replace real farms with solar farms is a big problem. I've recently sent you an email about one planned near me in Herfordshire. I'm releasing an EP which 50% of the profits will be going towards a charity set up to defend the farmland. I'm hoping you can feature in a video I'm doing to promote the EP...driving in a car down the A1..right up your street..or should that be A road! 😁👍🏻 Check your email Geoff..be great to have you on board. 👍🏻😎

[@AnnieRed66]

And the ad in the middle of this vid..."Why haven’t all homes in Britain got solar panels...?" FFS!! 🙄

[@gug1970]

our shit weather aside, If you want to escape "the man" for an individual - solar panels can be great (i'm talking off-grid/ grid-disconnected systems - that shouldn't get and now wouldn't need subsidy).

[@robinmcgowan1336]

I'm seriously worried about the heat trapping effect these massive solar farms are going to have. This has not been thought through at all.

[@James-cs2wi]

In last year we just had 300,000 rats come to this country

[@hectorshouse7348]

1.5 million every year

[@andrewpease3688]

About 1.25 million last year

[@sandwichbar8226]

If only the number was as low as 300k

[@JackOfski]

Over 2 million legal ones and about 150,000 in boats.

[@TheElizabethashby]

@@JackOfski AND STILL COMING IN EVEN ON PLANES

[@SidneyLewis-dm7ny]

Solent Green

[@damonsummers]

They admit that they have not done thier due liability to conform to the modern slavery act, in other words they accept slavery has been waved through! They are sub contracting company for Shell new energies.

[@rogerphelps9939]

You really are clutching a straws. Solar panels are no more likely to have been made using slave labour than anytthing else that comes out of China, much of what you buy without a second thought.

[@pwhite8107]

Am i missing something...what sunshine.

[@Reece1Harding]

Labour Gov lifts ban on onshore wind farms. Goodbye farms, goodbye countryside.

[@apennell3575]

BEST we start calling them Solar factories rather than Farms .

[@Fubar_The_WEF]

Two points: firstly they said the land can still be used for grazing sheep, what was conspicuous by its absence in the photo of the solar farm were any sheep! Secondly, I am reminded of a book I read called Wild Swans where the author described how Chairman Mao encouraged (financially) farmers to go into steel production, which they did, en mas. The result of this was that there was nobody producing food and many thousands of people starved to death.

[@D-B-Cooper]

A hailstorm is an environmental impact on a solar farm.

[@andyxox4168]

I hope they will use the cheapest compliant panels, whether made by slaves or not, as we can’t afford anything else!

[@keithrushforth4019]

Developments like this are the true reason the new Labour government wants to "reform" the planning system. All their talk about it being necessary to enable the building of more affordable housing is just a smoke screen.

[@Hoop-pi6dp]

Solar farms would be great in MOROCCO or PORTUGAL but with the UK crap weather and modified skies solar farms seem like a really dumb idea. A bit like building a Balinese gazebo in the arctic to use as a house, what morons…

[@kellyeye7224]

20MW?? You could put a 20MW diesel generator (and the fuel tanks) in a car park - a SMALL carpark at that. No spoiling of food production, no visible presence (behind a fence) and available *when you need it* at the turn of a key. Heck, even at night!

[@woodlandtroll4976]

Always follow the money

[@shatbad2960]

Shall we supply our own food or just subsidise unreliable energy? What a joke.

[@James-um8pq]

Because £ rules, strange how they have made their name sound like Unesco, like its going to be a heritage site for tourists

[@hamshackleton]

As it is on a known flood plain, does that mean they will build an enormous bund around it, with a lock-gate, to keep the water (and spies) out?

[@billynomates920]

30 hectares for just 20 megawatts? that makes windmils look sensible. this 100% about destroying agriculture.

[@kevinpslater]

That one in Herefordshire is small, try 2500 acres of prime farm land in Lincolnshire. Ed Milliband will no doubt agree it next year

[@puremusicdaz]

'We absolutely promise, in 40 years, that we'll remove the borken unrecyclable panels, long after i'm in the ground and i don't care that we wont.' Another stupid solution to a non-existent problem. Imagine everywhere being covered in solar panels and wind turbines and then someone discovers oil.

[@drstrangelove4998]

I hate the word ‘solar FARM!’ How is it a farm!! It’s a factory ffs!! Same with ‘wind farms’ the bird, bat and insect killers!!

[@daveb2wright]

No doubt any negative impact will be blamed on climate change. Hence, we need more solar farms! :-(

[@dublodave7860]

In Lincolnshire there are plans for 35 Solar Power Stations covering 53,000 acres (that's about 21,000 Hectares) of excellent farmland and just over the county border in Nott's there are another three planned covering a further 12,000 acres..

[@carlabradbury2143]

The fact that Lincolnshire produce around 30% of the country's food - this is unbelievable to even consider using it for solar 😪 It's not about energy nor climate change its all about money🤑 Cash for the farmers to not farm, cash for the foreign investors and the developers and the operators - who will end up paying for it - WE WILL They try to sell it as saving the planet and reducing our energy bills - IT WON'T.

[@malfunction8165]

The sites become brown field sites and then a planning free for all.

[@davecooper3238]

Only a towny would believe that solar farms could be installed without local consultation.

[@sang3Eta]

Energy companies in Spain and Australia are already complaining they have too much solar coming into the grid. Don't give up farm land!

[@allen_key]

Can they not just export it on a big battery ship like a tanker?

[@catherinesmith7068]

Grimsby have just got back to labour, even though I can't find anyone that voted for them, so the brown envelopes will be back in circulation!!!!!!

[@kevinmott6205]

Keep up the great work Geoff. Send it to all the political parties get it out there mate😊❤

[@rogerderamjet]

Brutal levels of harm

[@bsales3101]

Thanks for that Geoff. I have an application coming up the 60 Hectares (150 Acres) on fine arable land next to my house. The farmer has just put the 150 acres to flowers and is being paid £340/acre, more than the government would pay him to grow food crops. The solar farm will bring the farmer £150,000 per year for 30 years.

[@pks15032]

Wrexham too, utter waste of time, space, and money .

[@krismorgan]

Klaus said do it so here we are!

[@vinnylee878]

Solor farm? Nothing a few people and some hamners couldn't sort out 😉

[@wecandothiswarriors]

exactly but Jeff will not help here..He will just moan and ern his cash via here. Getting sick of these youtubers,the likes of Vobes et el..Funky is about the best one on here..

[@GeoffBuysCars]

@wecandothiswarriors so what are you doing about it? Because I’d love to know what to do. Seems to me there’s a lot of people out there who are all talk.

[@angelmessenger8240]

@@wecandothiswarriors Don't like what he has to say? Go away.

[@therogers4432]

The trouble with smashing solar panels with hammers is that all the nasty chemicals used to build them then leach into the soil underneath, which irrevocably destroys the soil and permanently renders it both toxic *and* infertile... Then those chemicals permeate through into the groundwater, and therefore into rivers, and everything becomes contaminated forever. If anybody doubts this doom-laden statement then just google "Texas Solar Farm Destroyed By Hailstorm" and see how that worked-out...

[@vinnylee878]

@@GeoffBuysCars the ulez guys aren't all talk

[@stevebreedon62]

I believe that after 12 years the land is then classed as industrial and not agricultural. Easy to sell for development and more houses for all the new British..

[@edgarplummer6750]

With ever farm they shut down, makes those bug burgers look more appealing - oh that's the goal.

[@jakesterlawson6389]

Had a solar panel advertisement before the video started haha.

[@elgarpazo]

Every solar farm includes a huge battery storage facility and its associated dangers to people and the environment, Geoff.

[@ruth.greening]

Well done Geoff. Great video.

[@sethkaye7897]

Frog soup nearly ready.......