1,200 acre carbon offset.

[76masseyman]

Nigh on 1,200 acres, over 3 sites of former Blankney Estates land north of Lincoln, has been purchased by Forestry England.
Currently being sown with grass in readiness for the trees.
A cash injection from an ‘airline’ has helped, so they can offset their carbon emissions.

 

[M-J-G]

A fake solution to a fake problem.

 

[Jsmith2211]

cant eat tree

 

[serf]

A fake solution to a fake problem.

Yep , green washing bullsh!t

 

[serf]

And it's only going to get worse...

 

[teslacoils]

Nigh on 1,200 acres, over 3 sites of former Blankney Estates land north of Lincoln, has been purchased by Forestry England.
Currently being sown with grass in readiness for the trees.
A cash injection from an ‘airline’ has helped, so they can offset their carbon emissions.

Which bit is that?

 

[76masseyman]

Which bit is that?

All of the Dunholme land, Newball near Langworth and North Carlton.

 

[teslacoils]

I await the salty anti-solars in the area leaving us be, and now getting up in arms about this horrific and irreverrsable loss of good, grade 3 farmland which is clearly vital for UK food security....

 

[Lowland1]

All of the Dunholme land, Newball near Langworth and North Carlton.

Probably suits them not to have to move machinery through Lincoln. They managed to blow the gearbox of a Claas 870 free wheeling down Lindum hill from the Cathedral and hasn’t the land at Carlton been in turf for a while anyway.

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Not just in that area either

 

[Swarfmonkey]

Yep , green washing bullsh!t

With the customer ultimately paying for it through increased prices.

Those [censored] in Whitehall would be hanging from lamp posts if Joe Public actually started adding up how much all this bulls**t is costing them.

 

[76masseyman]

Probably suits them not to have to move machinery through Lincoln. They managed to blow the gearbox of a Claas 870 free wheeling down the hill from the Cathedral and hasn’t the land at Carlton been in turf for a while anyway.

Not sure about the land currently under turf, but the North Carlton land ( west of the Lincolnshire showground ) has been sold.

 

[turbo]

Nigh on 1,200 acres, over 3 sites of former Blankney Estates land north of Lincoln, has been purchased by Forestry England.
Currently being sown with grass in readiness for the trees.
A cash injection from an ‘airline’ has helped, so they can offset their carbon emissions.

It’s nearly 2000 acres as all of North Carlton has been sold,all that’s left is the rented land at Burton and the land at Nettleham!

 

[76masseyman]

It’s nearly 2000 acres as all of North Carlton has been sold,all that’s left is the rented land at Burton and the land at Nettleham!

2,000 ares of woodland ! Going to be one hell of a pigeon roost.

 

[teslacoils]

I thought there was only 1500ac in the sales documents.

It’s nearly 2000 acres as all of North Carlton has been sold,all that’s left is the rented land at Burton and the land at Nettleham!

 

[Heathland]

Nigh on 1,200 acres, over 3 sites of former Blankney Estates land north of Lincoln, has been purchased by Forestry England.
Currently being sown with grass in readiness for the trees.
A cash injection from an ‘airline’ has helped, so they can offset their carbon emissions.

That's nothing most of the land south of Lincoln is in the planning process for a rather large solar farm .

The Springwell Solar Farm Action Group

The Springwell Solar Farm Action Group is a collective of residents concerned about the Springwell Solar Farm project

springwellsolar.co.uk

 

[Hindsight]

Its a funny old world. Poor Henry Ward has land that floods that he and Andrew rage at the EA and government for not defending so it can grow food yet Blankney are putting into solar thousands of acres of naturally well drained land that will never flood, without me getting to the land going into trees. Which should society be asked or expected to fund. There seems to me a lack of joined up thinking. But as ever money talks. Hey ho.

 

[DrWazzock]

What a mess.

 

[Jackov Altraids]

A fake solution to a fake problem.

I don't think that's correct.
It's a fake solution to the real problem.

This is being financed by an airline so it can tell passengers' that they are on a carbon neutral flight which is a lie.
It wouldn't be such a lie if they bought the land to grow crops to produce SAF [sustainable aviation fuel] but that would require too much land and might highlight the complete lie of offsets.

 

[egbert]

I don't think that's correct.
It's a fake solution to the real problem.

This is being financed by an airline so it can tell passengers' that they are on a carbon neutral flight which is a lie.
It wouldn't be such a lie if they bought the land to grow crops to produce SAF [sustainable aviation fuel] but that would require too much land and might highlight the complete lie of offsets.

^^^^^^^ this exactly.

I noted a couple of months ago that shell have quietly shelved the 'aviation fuel from renewables' project in ...Holland?
Oil is still cheap.