Defence Secretary John Healey has written to the developers of Whitestone Solar Farm to oppose the development of the 750 MW project in his constituency on the grounds of ‘proportionality, safety, and fairness’. Presumably he’ll be writing to his Cabinet colleague Ed Miliband soon too, because the proposal is a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP), and it will ultimately cross Red Ed’s desk for sign-off. Just last week, the government approved the UK’s largest solar farm in Lincolnshire…
Healey has told his constituents today, however, that all this “must be done right, with proper community engagement and without sacrificing our local environment“:
“I summarise my concerns below. If you go ahead with a formal application for this development, I plan to make a detailed submission to the Planning Inspectorate. My objections will not be made alone; many other local voices. organisations, and statutory consultees will be doing the same. I have long supported the need for Britain to expand renewable energy generation. It is cheap, home-grown, job-creating and essential for cutting our dependence on fossil fuels. And foreign state suppliers. When people elected us to government last year, we made a commitment to Clean Power by 2030 But, in my view, every project must still meet three tests. It must be proportionate, it must be safe. and it must be fair. Whitestone fails all three.”
Approving virtually all these NSIPs is central to Miliband’s agenda, not that you’d know that from Healey’s letter. It should make for a few awkward conversations at the Cabinet table. What happened to backing the builders, not the blockers?
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