Tell National Grid to Rethink Sea Link
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- We are asking the National Grid to examine an alternative route for cable linking Suffolk and Kent due to fears that decisions are based on the cheapest cost rather than minimising cost to wildlife at “internationally important” National Nature Reserve.
We support energy providers exploring more routes to renewable energy, but it should not come at the cost of nature when alternatives are available.
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Most informative. The Save Minster Marshes has nearly 13,000 people against this. Alternatives apparently turned down but never advised why!
Well done you folk of Kent. Please, is there a particular address or individual at The National Grid to write to ? Good luck from a friend in Cornwall (who, this year, has noticed a dramatic drop in particular bird species locally).
Ah, went to Kent Wildlife Trust's good website - thank you.
As a business, they will always go for the lowest-cost route. I say, pay for more expensive route, taking into account the value of wildlife. Too many wet fields full of lapwings bulldozed over and never used. Too may verges dug-up by utility companies & left spoilt. The direction of travel is ALWAYS downwards.
These cable links are vital for achieving net zero; as are projects like the high voltage pylons that the green party are opposing in East Anglia. There's always a good reason why this or that project shouldn't go ahead but if everyone gets their way no new renewable infrastructure will be built and we will miss our climate goals.
Yes. However, the implication is that the alternative routes would cost £x more to use. As a business, they will always go for the lowest-cost route. I say, pay for more expensive route, taking into account the value of wildlife.
@RussTillling absolutely, they are proposing a Substation, size of 9 football pitches and over 26 metres high, on our wonder marshland at #saveminstermarshes. Marshland, floods, Site of Special Scientific Interest. Endangered birds, amazing wildlife. Yes needed but not on this type of area. Brownfield. It's an amazing place. Look up Minster Marshes.
There is no such thing as an important nature preserve.
You're right they're not important, they're vitally important, good of you to point that out.
Clearly have no idea. sssi. Site of Special Scientic Interest.