Category Archives: Somerset Levels

Somerset Levels Drainage: Back to the Future

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Miles King

  While the debate over flooding continues to ebb and flow, it seems that the newly minted Somerset Drainage Authority, sorry Somerset Rivers Authority, have found their way back to the bright shiny future of the 1950s, when electricity would … Continue reading →

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Somerset Levels Update: Reflections on Flooding

Posted on November 28, 2014 by Miles King

It’s not just “You forgot the birds” who have been attacking RSPB recently. Earlier this year, they were blamed by a number of people, for causing the flooding in the Somerset Levels and Moors. Christopher Booker, in the Telegraph, was … Continue reading →

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Liz Truss gases on about Solar Farms, ignores threat from Maize.

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Miles King

The new  Environment Secretary Liz Truss has led a charge against solar farms recently, announcing that they should not be used on productive farmland, which is there to produce food. She called them “a blight on the landscape” and announced … Continue reading →

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Paterson promises the world to Levels Farmers – they want the Sun too.

Posted on May 31, 2014 by Miles King

Owen Paterson, the Scarlet Pimpernel of the Cabinet, has been missing for months. Where has he been? Not in the limelight. But he popped up yesterday in the West Country to promise the world to the Farmers of the Somerset … Continue reading →

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