A campaign by the local election candidate on a campaign on an anti-network opened a Coca-Cola solar farm and praised the company for 'embracing sustainable energy' when she was a conservative parliament member.
Dame Andrea Jenkyns posted photos online in a tweet removed since then when she was a guest of honor at the launch of the 20 -hectare site near Wakefield in West Yorkshire.
The former Minister of Tory Skills is the mayor of Greater Lincolnshire in front of the party of Nigel Farage, after he had passed after losing her chair in the general elections.
Dame Andrea is also director of the Net Zero Watch group climate skeptics since 2023 and an important plank of her campaign fights against the 'desecration' of viable agricultural land with solar panels.
But in 2017, when she was Tory MP for Morley and Outwood, she opened the Haigh Hall Solar Farm, which is used by Coca-Cola European partners to feed the largest soda factory in Europe.
In a press statement released by Coca-Cola when she praised 'an important and valuable project that is so close to home' and the hope it would be 'Inspire more companies to take such leadership in important issues for our society. '
Four years later, in April 2021, while she still had a back bencher, she praised an extension of the same solar farm, where the Yorkshire Times reported that she said: “In the current climate, companies have a huge responsibility for making a green recovery possible.”
When he was asked about her support for the solar farm in 2017, Dame Andrea told MailOnline that she told Coca-Cola when she did not agree, but publicly supported a large local employer in her role as the member of parliament.
Lady Andrea Jennyns posed for photos that she placed online in a tweet removed since then to mark the event on the 20 -hectare site near Wakefield in West Yorkshire.
In 2017, when she was a Tory-back bencher, she opened the Haigh Hall Solar Farm, which is used by Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) to feed Europe's largest soft drink factory.
The former Minister of Tory Skills is the mayor of Greater Lincolnshire for the party of Nigel Farage, after he lost her Morley and Outwood seat after the general elections.
She said: 'At the end of the day when you are a member of parliament, you are asked to open things, right?
“Do you suddenly say, if you have worked with Coca -Cola and they have been to my job fairs and they have been to my business club, you say '' No I am not '' – Do you suddenly do that, when they are a big local employer and they ask you to do something to open and support them like a company?”
She added that she had not been able to 'pronounce' about the issue when she was a government swip between September 2021 and July 2022, but later she joined Zero Watch.
There are plans in motion that can see solar farms of a total of more than 30,000 hectares in Lincolnshire.
Weeks after entering the government, the Netto Zero Secretary Ed Miliband projects approved projects, including the 2,000-hectare Mallard Pass site near Stamford and Gate Burton, near Gainsborough.
He has also re -launched the Solar Task Force to bring experts from the industry and the government together with the aim of tripling the triple solar power by 2030.
“I have no problem with companies that try to get cheaper energy when we have one of the highest energy costs in the world anyway, but when Miliband tries to have 30,000 hectares of sun farms on agricultural land in Lincolnshire, it is just crazy,” Dame Andrea added.
The Tory rival of Dame Andrea, council leader Rob Waltham, North Lincolnshire, has sworn to combat tooth and nail to protect the green spaces of Lincolnshire and agricultural land against solar farms'.
Earlier this month he said, “These vast solar installations do not belong on our beautiful countryside or agricultural land.”
But although he has a history of combating the developments of solar farms in his local role, he has also shown his broader green references.
In 2023, as leader of the council, he said the goal of being Zero was 'embedded in the heart of everything we do in 2030'.
He explained that he had personally rejected his heating at home and stopped buying plastics, he added: 'Our net zero plans are real, ambitious, feasible and tailored to business growth, creating jobs and improving the standard of living.
'But for us to be able to make the difference that we need, so that future generations have a better environment, we all have to confess our bit – we ask people in Noord -Lincolnshire immediately to participate and make promises to change.
'There are many small things that people can do to participate; Although we as a council can have an enormous impact, the impact will be super drawers if everyone gets involved. '
Earlier this month, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said it was time to 'become real' about reaching the Net Zero Target of the UK by 2050 during a speech to launch the party's policy renewal process in London.
Mrs Badenoch criticized influential quarters within her own party, including former Prime Minister Theresa May, because he suggested that the target was 'impossible' to reach.
She has commissioned shadow Coutinho, with the help of Shadow Scotland Secretary and Energy Minister Andrew Bowie, to look at solutions for supplying cheap and clean energy.
