In a recent interview for Portsmouth News, the recently elected leader of the Green Party in Britain, Natalie Bennett declared that the German company ib vogt’s project of installing 47 MW of solar power in the UK is ‘Britain’s future’
If they manage to implement it, this project will be the largest solar powered installation in the UK and the second in the European Union.
During the interview, Bennett stated :
“This solar farm will put Fareham at the forefront of the green energy revolution that is needed to curb climate change and secure this country’s energy supply.”
Click here to watch the whole interview.
In the interview, Bennett also mentioned that big projects in solar energy in the UK will help the country in achieving a clean and renewable source of energy, without big environmental impacts, such as in the exploitation of shale gas, for example, which devastates the area of exploitation and poisons the water and the land. In her own words :
“We are talking about having wild flowers growing, sheep grazing and the rights of way maintained, not a large-scale housing development.
‘The fact is that we do need more energy and we need to do a lot of work on energy conservation. Even if we do all we can, we still need low and zero carbon energy sources.’
‘The alternative to this is fracking – an extreme form of energy harvesting – basically blowing up the ground under your feet. Faced with destroying the earth or planting wild flowers and allowing sheep to graze, I think the choice is pretty obvious.’
The local community from Portsmouth, where the interview was made reacted with mixed emotions to these proposals from the Green Party leader, a local councilor, Mr Sean Woodward stated, according to Portsmouth News:
“This is a shocking proposal that I am sure will be of great interest and concern to residents of Stubbington and south Fareham.
“It would represent the loss of a significant area of countryside which forms a strategic gap between South Fareham and Stubbington. There are many issues that the council as the local planning authority will need to take into account if a planning application is submitted next month including, but not limited to, the environmental impact – positive in terms of power generation and negative in terms of the presence of thousands of solar panels, public views across the site and agricultural land that would be lost from cultivation to name just a few.”
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