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United Kingdom: Defra admits it has no idea about size of solar farm impact on food production
2014-10-28 10:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Defra has this week admitted it has not undertaken an estimate of how much arable land has been taken out of production as a result of the expansion of solar farms, despite complaints from Environment Secretary Liz Truss earlier this month that solar developments were a "blight on the landscape" that were causing a "big problem" by eating into agricultural land. Announcing controversial plans to block Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to farmers who used their land to generate solar power, Truss...
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