Following up on a post from yesterday ...

if it saves the life of just one polar bear ….

Yesterday I mentioned Lurch’s warning that environmental laws and regulations were going to have to give way to the Grand Green Plan to end fossil fuels; from what I read this morning, it seems that he’s just playing catch-up with his fellow commies across the pond.

Labour would fast-track countryside wind turbines and solar panels under net zero drive

… Mr Zeichner, the MP for Cambridge, said the proposals would “protect the land, support farmers and bring down bills” whilst ensuring the agricultural sector achieves net zero.

“Under the Conservatives, farmers and landowners have been left waiting years to plug their renewable energy into the grid. No more.

Mr Zeichner accused Rishi Sunak of “flip-flops and backtracks on net zero” which would leave British farmers more exposed to severe weather in future.

He added: “With Labour, Britain’s rural communities will get their future back.”

But the remarks will add to fears that Labour could water down the powers of rural communities to block new solar panels, wind farms and pylons.

Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to “bulldoze through” opposition to development and rewrite planning law to end local vetoes over green energy projects.

The Labour leader said last June that “there has to come a point where, if we’re going to move forward, we don’t have simple individual vetoes across the whole of the country”.

He also told his party conference in October that he would “fight the blockers” to build more wind and solar farms and “lay the cables our future prosperity needs”.