{"id":1427521,"date":"2022-04-10T10:44:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T14:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1427521"},"modified":"2022-04-10T10:44:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T14:44:52","slug":"climate-laws-threaten-family-farms-as-businesses-buy-up-land-for-carbon-credits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-laws-threaten-family-farms-as-businesses-buy-up-land-for-carbon-credits\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Laws Threaten Family Farms as Businesses Buy Up Land for Carbon Credits"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" 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 <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Climate laws are having a negative knock-on effect on farming as businesses outbid locals for land in hopes of generating carbon credits.<\/p>\n<p>The future existence of family farms in Wales is under threat as a result of Britain\u2019s climate laws, which are seeing big businesses outbid locals for land.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Companies have bought up more and more land in the British Home Nation in hopes of obtaining so-called carbon credits, which can be used to offset company emissions elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/greenwashing-threatens-welsh-farms-3nxd8pp7b\">report<\/a> by\u00a0<em>The Telegraph<\/em>, a number of companies have reportedly purchased Welsh land formerly used for farming to grow trees \u2014 at a time of rising food insecurity \u2014 with one investment firm buying up at least six former farms for the apparent purpose of afforestation.<\/p>\n<p>A number of MPs in Britain have now warned that the mass sales to big business could damage local communities and erode the inherited knowledge of Welsh customs and the Welsh language.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe heard that a significant amount of farming land is being lost to carbon offset projects, which is being sold at such a high price to wealthy companies that farmers, many of whom are already struggling financially, cannot compete,\u201d said Stephen Crabb MP, the Conservative chairman of Parliament\u2019s Welsh Affairs Select Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile offsets could be a useful tool in meeting net-zero, there must be adequate safeguards to avoid greenwashing by companies,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Minister Forces Through Green Taxes Despite Energy Crisis, Suggests Public Take Shorter Showers Instead<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RKLi22P31V\">https:\/\/t.co\/RKLi22P31V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1511312702085513220?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One Welsh farmer, 36-year old Ian O\u2019Connor, expressed concern regarding the buying up of land by big businesses, saying he feared his three sons may not get the opportunity to follow him into sheep farming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur communities are only going to get smaller and for every farm that goes, we are losing our heritage, Welsh language, and tradition,\u201d the farmer is reported as saying.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Those looking to preserve Welsh heritage are far from the only ones impacted by climate legislation, with other groups across Europe suffering under the weight of Green agendas.<\/p>\n<p>For example, those struggling to pay to heat their homes in Ireland are imminently set to experience even more financial hardship, with the country\u2019s climate minister, Eamon Ryan,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/04\/05\/minister-forces-through-green-taxes-despite-energy-crisis-suggests-public-take-shorter-showers-instead\/\">refusing point-blank<\/a> to postpone a planned carbon tax hike.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the Green Party politician is set to suggest that Irish people take shorter showers and fewer car rides if they want to save money on their energy bill \u2014 despite another government\u00a0TD (Teachta D\u00e1la, i.e. a member of the Irish parliament) emphasising that people on the island \u201care not able to afford it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Things are reportedly not that much better at the European Union level either, with one Member of the European Parliament (MEP) on Wednesday lambasting the bloc\u2019s elites for their Green New Deal-style energy policy and saying that experts had warned that such policies would only serve to make \u201cpoor people poorer\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey all said that if this law is implemented the way it is proposed, it will make poor people poorer, and it will undermine the European economy,\u201d Romanian MEP Cristian Terhes said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd what do we see [in 2022]?\u201d he demanded. \u201cWe see higher energy prices everywhere\u2026 that are hitting right now the most vulnerable Europeans, but this was something that was raised since 2019-2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee reveals Boris&#8217;s government has &#8220;no reliable estimate&#8221; of how much its <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BuildBackBetter?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BuildBackBetter<\/a> net-zero green policies are going to cost <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pp7epw30w4\">https:\/\/t.co\/Pp7epw30w4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1499387871240900608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Peter Caddle on Twitter:<\/span><\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peter_caddle\"><span>@Peter_Caddle<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate laws are having a negative knock-on effect on farming as businesses outbid locals for land in hopes of generating carbon credits. 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