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Cottam Solar Project
Representation by Robin Randle Charleston
- Date submitted
- 28 March 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
Solar farms such as those proposed under the Cottam and West Burton projects will take good agricultural land out of commission for at least a generation; they uglify the landscape whilst representing only dubious guesses about the nation's future energy needs. I suggest that the whole scheme should be cut down by two-thirds and treated as a pilot project, to be evaluated after 10 years. Any resultant shortfall must be redressed by the enlargement of offshore wind-farms and the further development of nuclear power generation -- sadly neglected for decades. For the rest, we need to explore further the possibilities offered by new technologies such as nuclear fusion and tidal turbines.