Nigel Farage and Richard Tice have reignited the net-zero conversation with Reform’s pledge not to build any new pylons.
No Pylons Lincolnshire is not political, but welcomes the Reform statement on proposed energy infrastructure as a starting point for a national debate and highlights the issue to many more who were, until now, unaware of how much Lincolnshire will be affected.
Richard Tice, Reform MP for Boston and Skegness, has been a member of No Pylons Lincolnshire since last summer, and other political representatives have followed the No Pylons Lincolnshire campaign for some time.
No Pylons Lincolnshire hopes the Reform statement on pylons in particular will galvanise others to speak out about the risks that net zero in Lincolnshire places on the landscape and thousands of acres of prime agricultural land.
There is a real need for a national conversation about our food security being put in jeopardy by thousands of acres of land currently growing our vegetables, grain and fruit and providing home-grown meat and dairy being turned over to massive solar arrays and energy infrastructure – a conversation that reaches those so far oblivious to the ill thought-out pathway to net zero.
Lincolnshire is disproportionately affected by these proposals – more solar, more pylons, more infrastructure such as huge substations. Anything that highlights the issues, before it’s too late, is positive, regardless of political persuasions.
Whether you vote Conservative, Labour, Lib-Dem, Reform, or don’t vote, we are now all in the same boat in Lincolnshire.
As ever, No Pylons Lincolnshire, stresses it is for green, clean, renewable energy and a gradual move towards carbon neutrality. But it is opposed to the current rush to net zero which will disfigure the countryside with mile upon mile of overhead wires on hundreds of huge steel pylons.
It continues to make the case for more environmentally-friendly cost-effective alternatives, such as offshore wind power coming onshore closer to the point of delivery and then underground where possible to brownfield sites.
It supports solar on rooftops, commercial and industrial, and on brownfield sites, but questions its effectiveness when, for instance, solar contributed only 0.9 percent of our energy needs last week (February 7-14) when the sun barely penetrated the grey clouds.
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