Campaign Against Rural Exploitation🍃💚🍃 🦇🦎🦇🦎

Reluctant campaigner. But people keep doing stupid stuff. 😐 Protesting conversion of food crops on good farmland to solar and I really shouldn’t need to.

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday terminated a $7 billion grant program that was intended to help pay for residential solar projects for more than 900,000 lower-income U.S. households.

[Campaign Against Rural Exploitation🍃💚🍃 🦇🦎🦇🦎 @HelenHH99]

And out again. #leafcutter #bee 🐝

[Campaign Against Rural Exploitation🍃💚🍃 🦇🦎🦇🦎 @HelenHH99]

More wildlife harassment in my own greenhouse.

The pot is right in the middle of my work zone and the echeveria is supposed to be potted on for the fete.

But #leafcutter’s got to leaf cut, I guess…

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

150,000 hectares more to be lost by 2050, according to DEFRA

That is why we need the Homes for Everyone approach instead https://t.co/TQXq1fgGuc

#GreenfieldLast

@CommunityPlann1

[Campaign Against Rural Exploitation🍃💚🍃 🦇🦎🦇🦎 @HelenHH99]

What would also be helpful is if we refused planning for #solar on sustainably irrigated land, such as https://t.co/zcxEHsAeco, which has taken 100 acres of food-producing #farmland in droughty #Essex that has been irrigated by winter abstraction since the 70s.

[National Farmers' Union @NFUtweets]

“After warnings of thunderstorms at the start of the month, this switch to hot, dry weather reinforces just how urgently we need long-term planning and investment in water resilience.

NFU Vice-president @rachellhallos comments on the current hot weather👇

#BackBritishFarming

[Campaign Against Rural Exploitation🍃💚🍃 🦇🦎🦇🦎 @HelenHH99]

Meanwhile, the displaced owls are roosting over the patio… 😳

[Campaign Against Rural Exploitation🍃💚🍃 🦇🦎🦇🦎 @HelenHH99]

Third family of the season in what for the past few years has been the ‘kestrel’ box, so this is the soundtrack of much of my day.

But I’ve found that baby kestrels are very nosy and shut up and stare if you talk nonsense to them…

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

Totally right

[Campaign Against Rural Exploitation🍃💚🍃 🦇🦎🦇🦎 @HelenHH99]

@ChrisGPackham @hayfestival @Kevin_McCloud @RosieP4 @SarahLamptey That was brilliant! #TeamBat #TeamNewt

[Campaign Against Rural Exploitation🍃💚🍃 🦇🦎🦇🦎 @HelenHH99]

https://t.co/dctdfNbyEt

[Save our Bridge! @de_jasay]

Boxted bridge proposal directly conflicts with DEFRA Section 85 Guidance https://t.co/oZL4LfVXwC via @UKChange

[Campaign Against Rural Exploitation🍃💚🍃 🦇🦎🦇🦎 @HelenHH99]

Nailed it.

[Matt Cartoons @MattCartoonist]

'It's a school project. I have to pull up this mustard and cress and install a solar farm'

My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph

Buy a print of my cartoons at https://t.co/ILFJjPmckx

Original artwork from https://t.co/bVPAkgE34y

[Biodiversity & Environment Action Group 🦇🦎🍃💚🍃 @BEAG_Tweets]

Rachel Reeves: doing to the environment what Liz Truss did to the economy.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Everything about how we discuss the climate crisis is wrong. I just heard a radio journalist talk about protecting ‘the environment’. It’s not the environment, it’s us. It’s our survival. The whole planet. We know what happens when carbon dioxide goes up: https://t.co/yTRLuXMClg

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

People AND trees
Win:win

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Charlie Ireland (agronomist who appears in Clarkson’s Farm) points out the actual economic facts regarding the huge financial jeopardy placed on family farms because of the Labour government’s inheritance tax.

[CommunityPlanningAlliance 🦇🦎 @CommunityPlann1]

We wish a very Happy Christmas ☃️ to all our supporters and anyone campaigning for affordable housing, the environment, and nature 🦢🦔🦎
If you do one thing for nature, please 🙏 read our report and share it with your MP. The link is easy on the website.
https://t.co/eva6peWbwb

[Rescue Hoad's Wood 🍃💚🍃 @rescuehoadswood]

An excellent interview by @RosieP4 explaining why @UKLabour are on the wrong track for delivering for housing.

[Matt Cartoons @MattCartoonist]

'New wind farm - Rate how well we've ignored your opinions'

My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph

Buy a print of my cartoons at https://t.co/ILFJjPmckx

Original artwork from https://t.co/bVPAkgE34y

[Campaign Against Rural Exploitation🍃💚🍃 🦇🦎🦇🦎 @HelenHH99]

This is so obviously the wrong way to do what would otherwise be a brilliant thing that it’s still incredible to me that this is the primary way the UK wants to do solar. 🤯

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Plans to build the UK’s largest solar farm (2,400-acres) in Oxfordshire have been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate.

This is wrong. Instead of developing solar panels on prime farmland, put them on brownfield land, roofs or car parks instead.

https://t.co/BaYFjvbDg9