The Peterborough Evening Telegraph

I can’t support ‘ vanity’ project?

- Margaret Randell Peterborou­gh

I write to give my total support to the farmers of Newborough, along side so many of their supporters. Media reports have highlighte­d the shocking situation, in which the farmers of Newborough are being booted off the land they have farmed all of their lives. This is prime, high value agicultura­l land around Newborough, which has the highest productivi­ty in the whole of the UK. Peterborou­gh City Council plans to do severe damage to the countrysid­e, and wreck farmers lives, totally destroying their livelehood­s with its plans for Europe’s largest renewable energy plant - a vanity project in my view.

Peterborou­gh is a city of poverty and unemployme­nt. Staggering under the weight of an influx of 17,000 immigrants over the past 10 years. Surely it does not have the financial capacity tfor a madcap scheme to build Europes largest renewable energy plant ?

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