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- The great pylon pile-on: can councils’ opposition scupper Labour’s ‘clean power’ revolution? Sun, 21 Jul 24, 2:00amThe energy secretary’s plans to install thousands of pylons in unspoiled rural areas is facing a huge backlash
- Tory pledge to review pylons could lead to energy bill hike, say experts Mon, 24 Jun 24, 9:13pmClimate experts and ministers say burying electricity cables could cost 10 times more than pylons
- Come 5 July, an almighty fight looms. Keir Starmer, take on the countryside at your peril | Simon Jenkins Fri, 21 Jun 24, 1:43amBritain’s landscape is under threat from developers and rapacious corporations. But I have a solution – if the next PM will listen
- 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