Would it have been so hard to have the headline be “Foreign-owned solar farms attacked by Norfolk’s Green”? There’s no way the BBC didn’t know exactly what they were doing. Shame on them.
HMWYA on
It’s interesting, because, beyond the massively dishonest headline ignoring the fact her actual issue with the solar farm is it being a foreign-owned company profiteering, this is also hidden late into the article.
“East Pye has faced strong opposition from politicians in the other main parties on the council including the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and Reform UK.”
Weird to single out one party in the headline when there’s local cross-party agreement on this, which would suggest there’s more specific local issues at play as to why they may all be against this.
Dimmo17 on
Seems like people don’t understand how NIMBYism operates. You find a popular reason ( in this case some nice economic nationalism ) to block a project.
There is nothing stopping us ALSO building community owned projects and having local profits in ADDITION to foreign investment, to help accelerate our decarbonisation.
Anyone siding with her are useful mugs for the NIMBY games and slowing down the energy transition to the benefit of fossil fuel lobby. We will need domestic and foreign investment to get off fossil fuels asap, Greens pretend that there’s no trade offs or international collaboration to be done because they are not serious about tough decisions to be made for climate change. Hence why they block pylons, solar farms, anti-nuclear etc.
callsignhotdog on
Nationally, Greens are “Tax the rich, abolish landlords, windmills EVERYWHERE” but locally there’s still a lot of “Protect the village green, no new infrastructure” rural middle class types. This divide is what the last leadership contest was about, and the Tax the Rich Greens won under Polanski, and it’s boosted their national popularity a lot because that’s a voting bloc that’s been looking for a home since Corbyn, but they didn’t purge the Village Greens the way Labour purged it’s Corbynites so the divide still exists at the local level of the party.
lwbyomp on
If it can be UK owned & funded, esp profits going back into UK: companies, institutions & people (lower costs) then that should be the model we look to implement.
Thatchers privatisation & destruction of national infrastructure is ruinous for UK & is a model never to be followed again – it is designed to profit a select few & indebt the financial liabilities & burden on the UK tax payers, never again.
KefferLekker02 on
I wouldn’t want solar farms owned by Macquarie either after their operation of Thames Water in recent years…
SavageRabbitX on
And they are anti nuclear as well which is stupid as hell
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Would it have been so hard to have the headline be “Foreign-owned solar farms attacked by Norfolk’s Green”? There’s no way the BBC didn’t know exactly what they were doing. Shame on them.
It’s interesting, because, beyond the massively dishonest headline ignoring the fact her actual issue with the solar farm is it being a foreign-owned company profiteering, this is also hidden late into the article.
“East Pye has faced strong opposition from politicians in the other main parties on the council including the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and Reform UK.”
Weird to single out one party in the headline when there’s local cross-party agreement on this, which would suggest there’s more specific local issues at play as to why they may all be against this.
Seems like people don’t understand how NIMBYism operates. You find a popular reason ( in this case some nice economic nationalism ) to block a project.
There is nothing stopping us ALSO building community owned projects and having local profits in ADDITION to foreign investment, to help accelerate our decarbonisation.
Anyone siding with her are useful mugs for the NIMBY games and slowing down the energy transition to the benefit of fossil fuel lobby. We will need domestic and foreign investment to get off fossil fuels asap, Greens pretend that there’s no trade offs or international collaboration to be done because they are not serious about tough decisions to be made for climate change. Hence why they block pylons, solar farms, anti-nuclear etc.
Nationally, Greens are “Tax the rich, abolish landlords, windmills EVERYWHERE” but locally there’s still a lot of “Protect the village green, no new infrastructure” rural middle class types. This divide is what the last leadership contest was about, and the Tax the Rich Greens won under Polanski, and it’s boosted their national popularity a lot because that’s a voting bloc that’s been looking for a home since Corbyn, but they didn’t purge the Village Greens the way Labour purged it’s Corbynites so the divide still exists at the local level of the party.
If it can be UK owned & funded, esp profits going back into UK: companies, institutions & people (lower costs) then that should be the model we look to implement.
Thatchers privatisation & destruction of national infrastructure is ruinous for UK & is a model never to be followed again – it is designed to profit a select few & indebt the financial liabilities & burden on the UK tax payers, never again.
I wouldn’t want solar farms owned by Macquarie either after their operation of Thames Water in recent years…
And they are anti nuclear as well which is stupid as hell