Our countryside is under threat from the fad of net zero

CAN there be a more perverse form of environmentalism than erecting thousands of pylons across pristine countryside in order to deliver “green” energy? Almost as bad as hundreds of acres of productive farm land being covered with solar panels.

- TIm Newark

In the name of ramming through legislation aimed at enforcing net zero upon us, Britons are being offered £250 a year off their heating bills if they live near one of these new pylons. But that “bribe”, for make no mistake, that is what it is, will barely touch the side of the likely fall in value of their houses as these metal giants march across our landscape.

As the true cost and sacrifice of decarbonising our nation becomes increasingly clear, it is time to debate the value of all this virtue-signalling nonsense.

Under the guise of “saving the planet”, Labour wants to spend billions of taxpayers’ pounds on erecting a new generation of taller 75m pylons, constructed from steel we no longer make in this country (probably imported from China where it is almost certainly made using energy from fossil fuel), and charging us all more on our energy bills to pay for it.