UK Prime Minister Liz Truss does not think solar panels should be installed on productive agricultural lands, Downing Street has said. According to a report in The Guardian, Environment Secretary Ranil Jayawardena wants to protect farmland amid concerns over food security and is seeking to restrict the development of solar projects on farms in England….

Over two dozen climate activists from Just Stop Oil have been arrested after they blocked The Mall outside Buckingham Palace in protest against the expansion of oil and gas projects in the UK. The Metropolitan Police said 25 arrests had been made at The Mall, after members of Just Stop Oil, a spin-off from Extinction…

Climate activists have blocked roads in central London for a seventh day as they protest against the UK government’s decision to expand oil and gas development to alleviate the energy crisis. The Just Stop Oil organisation, a spin-off from Extinction Rebellion, said on Friday that 22 of its supporters were arrested by Metropolitan Police after…

The UK government has blocked a Chinese firm from accessing sensitive information about Britain’s power grid, as concerns grow about Beijing’s involvement in critical infrastructure in the West. Redrock Investment Limited, a subsidiary of China’s state-owned State Development & Investment Corporation (SDIC), is set to obtain a 35 percent stake in Electricity North West (ENW),…

The government has lifted the ban on fracking in England, despite the publication of a report (pdf) by the British Geological Survey (BGS) which was “inconclusive” and said more data was needed. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a process in which high-pressure liquid is fired at shale formations to release gas. The 2019 Conservative manifesto…