Farmers in the UK are being displaced from their land to make way for large-scale solar power projects. Minette Batters, the outgoing president of the National Farmers Union (NFU), has raised concerns about landowners reclaiming land from tenant farmers to lease it for solar farms, which can earn up to £1000 per acre annually for 40 years. Critics argue that this trend, driven by net zero solutions, threatens food security and calls for new government intervention to protect prime agricultural land. A major solar farm project in Fife has been approved despite over 80 objections, highlighting the horrifying urgency of the issue.
“Major solar farm gets go ahead on Fife farmland despite over 80 objections.” No prime farmland should be used for mass scale solar power farms. Local and national governments must protect our farmland and therefore, protect our food security. https://t.co/cUHcHWgnJ7
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“The country is up for sale.” The corporatist asset grab of farming through net zero ‘solutions’. As warned by the president of the National Farmers Union. Tenant farmers are being booted off land for huge solar schemes so the landowner can make more money. https://t.co/8nlZrfswBi
Farmers booted off land for solar power. “We are a country up for sale. We are selling off land to people who don't pay their taxes here. We are seeing horrific examples land owners taking land back from tenants to put into solar.” - Minette Batters, outgoing president of NFU https://t.co/znB7bBrRaw
Farmers are being booted off their land in a drive for more solar power, outgoing union chief warns https://t.co/NrInmlUOL7 https://t.co/1vrhD9bGdA