The Solar Panel Gold Rush That Threatens to Ruin Our Countryside ; ...And Make Millions for the Germans and Chinese [Edition 3]
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Farmers are being offered up to Pounds 50,000 a year to fill fields with solar panels under a Government-backed green initiative that threatens to change the face of the British countryside.
More than 100 planning applications have been submitted and work on a large-scale installation in Wiltshire is due to begin later this month.See the full content of this document
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The Solar Panel Gold Rush That Threatens to Ruin Our Countryside ; ...And Make Millions for the Germans and Chinese [Edition 3]
But with a 30-acre farm able to accommodate up to 18,000 of the 2ft-high panels, campaigners fear some rural areas could be submerged by a sea of black silicon slabs.
The 'Feed-in Tariff' scheme was launched in april as part of an...See the full content of this document
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