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- Country diary: This is prime wild country – and should remain so | Jim Perrin Sat, 9 Sep 23, 2:30pmNew Radnor, Powys: I reject in the strongest terms the idea that we must choose between building renewables and keeping our most precious land
- MPs to hear plan to get rural households to run heating on vegetable oil Wed, 11 Jan 23, 6:00pmGeorge Eustice says adapted kerosene boilers can run on ‘hydro-treated vegetable oil’ and cut emissions by 88%
- Ministers hope to ban solar projects from most English farms Mon, 10 Oct 22, 5:00pmExclusive: Environment minister seeks to expand definition of prime farmland in drive for productivity
- Fracking could affect many protected areas across England as ban is lifted Thu, 22 Sep 22, 7:25pmGuardian analysis finds 151 licences already granted threaten environmentally important spots
- Truss could break fracking election pledge to bypass local opposition Thu, 22 Sep 22, 9:41pmExclusive: Government discussions ongoing to designate sites as nationally significant infrastructure projects
- Country diary: vanished giants of the age of coal Thu, 2 Jan 20, 4:30pmIronbridge Gorge, Shropshire: There was something monumental about these terracotta-coloured funnels, these magical vessels of rain-river-cloud
- Can we humans save ourselves from self-destruction? | Letters Wed, 8 May 19, 2:59amRichard Middleton, Robin Russell-Jones, Judith Wright, Tom Fyans, Richard Aldwinckle, John Nissen, and Mayer Hillman respond to the latest dire warnings from scientists and policymakers on biodiversity and climate changeEduardo...
- Ministers to review Durham open-cast mine decision Thu, 17 Jan 19, 3:34amGovernment admits process that allowed Pont Valley site to begin operating was flawed
- New oil threat looms over England's national park land, campaigners warn Fri, 16 Mar 18, 3:21amMore than 71,000 hectares of protected countryside in the south-east face risk of drilling
- Industrial landscape should be protected | Letters Thu, 1 Feb 18, 5:05amDonal Boyle says Historic England must preserve some of the country’s cooling towers; while David Smythe says there is no justification for fracking in the UKWe are in danger of losing a major feature of the late 20th-century...
- Towers in a landscape Wed, 13 Apr 16, 2:30pmIronbridge Gorge As the reasons for the old power station’s cooling towers being there fade from memory, they become more enigmatic, more magical
- Shenhua coalmine unearths Nationals’ lack of leadership on land usage Thu, 16 Jul 15, 3:56pmWhile Barnaby Joyce has been vociferous in his opposition to the Shenhua mine, the Nationals leader, Warren Truss, has not uttered a word
- People power has shut the doors on fracking in the UK Sat, 4 Jul 15, 1:11amRelentless local protests and a damning report have dealt a double blow to a fledgling fracking industry, but the companies aren’t going to go away
- Government ordered to publish redacted fracking report in full Fri, 19 Jun 15, 1:45amHeavily redacted report on the impact of fracking in the UK should be released in full, information commissioner tells environment department
- It’s time to talk honestly about fracking | Letters Thu, 11 Jun 15, 4:34amHaving access to gas is a matter of national security. Our homes and large parts of British industry need gas; any suggestion to the contrary is just not the real world. The truth is we are going to be using gas, including...