As Net Zero targets trump food production across the UK, tenant farmers are being evicted from prime land in a government-backed solar gold rush, writes Jonathan Leake in the Telegraph. Here’s an excerpt:
When tenant farmer Nicholas Waller-Barrett decided to explore ways to boost his small potato farm and chip factory in Norfolk, solar panels were an obvious answer.
A few of the energy-generating panels could, he thought, help provide more power to the farm, which employs nine people from the surrounding villages.
But be careful what you wish for. Waller-Barrett’s farm has been targeted for a massive solar plant, which will be called Glebe Farm, and now his landlord plans to take his land away, replacing potato crops with thousands of giant glass panels.
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