Environment Secretary

  • Subsidies to solar farms to be cut

    ENVIRONMENT SECRETARY Liz Truss has called solar farms “a blight on the landscape” and revealed plans to cut subsidies under new plans to ensure more land is dedicated to food production.                  … Read More

  • Environment Secretary urges UK to embrace GM

    IN A speech this morning [Thursday 20th June] Owen Paterson, the environment secretary, called for the UK public to back Genetically Modified (GM) crop production, claiming that Europe was falling behind the rest of the world.   Paterson pointed to… Read More

  • Government backs GM

    THE GOVERNMENT is hoping to “speed up” the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops in the UK.   In an interview with the Telegraph, published today, the Environment Secretary Owen Paterson said GM “would be a good thing” and criticised… Read More

  • Badger culls delayed

    THE GOVERNMENT and the National Farmers Union (NFU) have announced that planned badger culls will be postponed until next year.   The NFU wrote to Environment Secretary Owen Paterson to request that the pilot badger culls in West Somerset and… Read More