I’m interested how this will dry out the area due to increased drainage yet also increase flooding.
The moors contain large peat bogs that soak up vast amounts of water and release it slowly into the catchment area. If you add drainage you dry the moors out (which has led to a lot of fires over the last few years) and increased the speed of runoff.
This area has been of specific concerns over recent years because it is upstream of Hebden Bridge which has suffered from heavy flooding recently and a lot of the blame was pinned on the land management of the moors, which has been drained and burned to make it more suitable for grouse shooting.
I’m sure this is bad, I can’t think of a reason Saudis would build something like this except to be pricks
Not quite that but also, yes. They already own the land, I believe, and their pitch is we can use it for grouse shooting or we can build wind turbines on it.