MPs Raise Food Security Concerns Over Net Zero Infrastructure

MPs have raised concerns that erecting pylons across farmland as part of National Grid upgrades for net zero could impact food security. Matt Warman told MPs in Westminster Hall on Thursday that his constituents were worried about how plans to connect offshore renewable energy farms to a new electricity transmission line would impact the area, noting that “Lincolnshire is one of the most productive parts of our agricultural economy.” The Conservative MP for Boston and Skegness said that even if there were the possibility of running the cables underground so that “we can go back to fully productive land,” it would be “a project for a number of years and the land is never, as any farmer will tell us, quite the same again.”...