Farmers are being offered up to £50,000 a year to fill fields with solar panels under a Government-backed green initiative that threatens to change the face of the British countryside.
More than 100 planning applications have been submitted and work on a large-scale installation in Wiltshire is due to begin later this month.
But with a 30-acre farm able to accommodate up to 18,000 of the 2ft-high
panels, campaigners fear some rural areas could be submerged by a sea of black silicon slabs.
panels, campaigners fear some rural areas could be submerged by a sea of black silicon slabs.
Is it just me, but it seems strange, ecologically speaking to fill fields with solar panels made in China and Germany and then import food from all corners of the world by plane. Is that not against some sort of 'climate change' directive, or is it just another small part of this vast EU operation to make this country and the rest of Europe totally unproductive in comparison to China and the emerging third world economies?
What happens when, as it will one day, the oil runs out? We will find that most of our agricultural land in this country is unproductive due to being poisoned for years by fertilizers, which will no longer be available due to the fact they are made out of oil. When that day comes, we will have to revert to actually growing food locally, not filling fields with fucking solar panels. The only consolation is that, in Scotland, they'll be a complete waste of time!
