A quick non-BG post, just because I still can't believe what I heard on the news yesterday and it has me seething, generally at the state of modern life and specifically at anyone who could have voted Conservative at the elections and expected anything new or different about them.
The scary thing is, having heard this story on the radio, I've tried to look it up on the internet and there is nothing, anywhere, about it. As though it's a minor little item that can be hidden, doesn't need to be discussed, and has no implications.
I'm just hoping at some point that my faith will be restored and once I can get behind the "headline" news, the detail will show it's not as told yesterday.
And the news story was this:
The government is to look at a scheme whereby local residents will be given council tax rebates if they agree to new developments in their area and don't put in objections.
I had to highlight it. Is it just me or is that the most unbelievable thing you could ever read from a British government?
What it equates to, it seems to me, is a government offering a bribe to the people on behalf of their multinational, blue-chip mates. Is that not it? Am I missing something? And, of course, as an example of where the "policy" (read "bribe") would apply, they cited the development of wind-farms. Fancy that!
The fact that's being kept quiet (one of many!) is that, in order to meet the current targets for production of energy from wind-farms, every hill and moor in places such as Calderdale, mid-Wales etc will have to be covered by one of these developments, ruining the countryside forever for the sake of a disproved technology.
And who has just taken up a board role with one of the largest provider of wind-farms, a company currently targeting the UK? Step forward the deputy prime minister's wife!
39th Calderdale Hike 37mi. 01/04/2017.
7 years ago
Well you know my view, this is absolutely outrageous! As if it wasn’t enough that our wild landscapes are being destroyed by wind farms, the visual impact s just the start; massive decline of & disruption to bats, birds, hares, deer, badgers, voles to name but a few that live, bread & roam the UK's wetlands & nest in its peat bogs. Then there's the release of carbon dioxide, when the carbon stored in peat bogs formed over hundreds & thousands of years is bug up to be replaced by tons of concrete that forms the foundation for these structures.
ReplyDeleteSo now we move urban developments...if renewable and regeneration are the buzz words, how exactly does that fit with destroying more of our landscapes with cheap shoddy housing that is also unlikely to stand the test of time? Yet more concrete poured in the earth...have we forgotten about out towns and villages flooding year on year largely due to over construction and destruction of our flood plan grass land?