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...Private and institutional investors bought a third of all farms sold in 2022, according to land agents Strutt & Parker....
...However, 72 per cent of those polled said they supported the government’s goal to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2050, and 79 per cent supported new onshore wind farms....
...With a long history of fishing, it prospered from the discovery of North Sea oil in the 1960s and from the more recent growth of offshore wind farms....
...refined slightly smaller green prosperity plan, the government would still borrow something like 100bn quid over a parliament and they would be the ones paying for a load of electric car infrastructure, wind farms...
...Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has promised a response in his Autumn Statement and Shapps said planning reforms to facilitate more wind farms would be part of a “holistic approach”....
...upon until recently, Starmer put his most radical proposal on the table back in September 2021 — a plan to borrow £28bn a year until 2030 to spend on green transition policies such as subsidising wind farms...
...And so for example, the time that it takes to get a new wind farm or a new solar farm approved here in the UK and also in the EU can be years....
...and Jim Pickard report, the Labour party is again downplaying the scale of new borrowing their climate plan involves)....
...Meanwhile, Sunak unsettled renewable energy companies when he promised to scrap plans to relax a ban on onshore wind farms in England and instead focus on offshore developments....
...Chancellor Rishi Sunak has ordered officials to draw up plans for a possible windfall tax on more than £10bn of excess profits by electricity generators, including wind farm operators, on top of a hit on...
...The electricity sector is diverse, ranging from gas-fired power to offshore wind farms, and generators sell their output under a multitude of different contracts....
...Boris Johnson on Wednesday signalled a big role for offshore wind farms in the government’s new energy supply strategy, but played down the prospect of a significant expansion of land-based turbines....
...These include resisting a generous new target for expansion of onshore wind farms and a public consultation on ending a moratorium on fracking for oil and gas....
...Government insiders say windfall profits by electricity producers, including wind farm operators, are more than £10bn this year....
...closed his two-day visit in New Delhi on Friday, a frustrated Johnson did not want to talk about the Covid lockdown parties, preferring to answer questions about them from journalists by talking about wind farm...
...Subsidy contracts similar to those used to incentivise wind farm construction will be used to encourage heavy industry such as chemicals and steel manufacturers to use hydrogen instead of methane gas....
...The so-called green levy is made up of several taxes used to help fund investment in low-carbon generation, including nuclear and wind farms, and paying energy companies to insulate homes for poorer households...
...Jim McMahon, shadow environment secretary, said: “This is nothing more than a statement of vague intentions, not a concrete proposal to tackle the major issues facing our country.”...
...Some Tory MPs sympathise with local opposition to wind farms and solar farms, amid concerns about their impact on views and biodiversity....
...Ministers are also examining relaxing the planning system to allow more onshore wind farms....
...The chancellor sat down with George Parker following the announcement of his “mini” Budget and said he would set out how the UK will go about reducing its debt pile “in the new year”....
...One result of that, as George Parker Jim Pickard and Nick Peterson reveal, is that the Cabinet is split over whether or not to unilaterally lower tariffs on food imports, including items such as rice and...
...“I can see the number of farmers reducing and farms having to get bigger,” he said....
...Scottish National party MP Jim Fairlie, said: “Granting tariff-free access to farming produce would completely betray the promises that have been made by countless Tory ministers and prove that Boris Johnson...
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