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MP Daniel Kawczynski warns on pylon plans
Friday 10th June 2011, 5:59AM BST.
Letter: Mid-Wales and Shropshire are lucky enough to be privy to some of the most stunning landscapes in Britain. These special places are a life-enhancing resource for all of us that ought to be valued.
This issue has come to a head because of the proposals to build between 600 and 800 new onshore wind turbines in mid-Wales, and a 19-acre substation and pylons to transmit this energy to the National Grid. The pylons such a project would require would devastate communities in Wales and beyond.
Daniel Kawczynski MP
It is perfectly reasonable to be concerned about climate change and support renewable energy whilst objecting to improperly planned, unsuitably located wind farms.
It is of the utmost importance that the Coalition Government rebalance its renewable energy focus.
If onshore wind farms are used, they must be put in a sensible location. Electricity pylons do not simply blight the landscape. National Grid freely acknowledges that there are concerns about the potential heath effects of the electric and magnetic fields as a result of power lines.
More research is needed before they are put up and down the country, because the alternative is simply not worth the risk.
Underground cablings needs to be given open and honest consideration.
Undergrounding has been used in Europe with success.
The National Grid and wind farm developers have told us that putting cables underground would cost 15 times as much, when the Danish experience suggests that the costs are nothing like that.
Climate change presents a significant threat to the countryside in the UK, but so do huge pylons and wind turbines.
Daniel Kawczynski MP
Shrewsbury and Atcham
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Denmark is a relatively small relatively flat country, with cabling likely to follow straight roads
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Under ground is the only option,why do we wish to ruin our countryside?.Get the electric companies to foot the bill from the massive profits they make.
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High voltage cabling can’t be run underground at an ecenomical cost. Windfarms are an eyesore never mind the pylons, which ruins the countryside
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Tough on the first point.
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The National Grid have priced up the job for running cables underground but are refusing to release the figures – for some reason!
They’ve vastly over estimated the costs in order to plough ahead with pylons.
Any idea what our green and pleasant land will look like when we need to supply energy, food, water, housing to a population of 80 or 90 million (by 2080)? The population boom, fuelled by mass,illegal immigration, will ensure the utter destruction of all our landscapes and will make this discussion about pylons seem insignificant.
It is likely that within 30 years we will experience a perfect storm – a total depletion of all our natural resources, simply because our polititians are too weak to address the fact that this land-mass is dangerously overpopulated. Look at the stats -go figure, do the math.
A few pylons? Ha ha, trivial. The solution the planet will find for itself is a population crash. She will then recover very nicely ta!
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I understand the impact that they may have on the countryside aesthetically, but do people really believe that the pylons are going to go through their back garden?
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