Protesters say no to huge pylons across region
More than 300 campaigners, furious at plans to build a 30-mile long high voltage power line across parts of Shropshire and Mid Wales, gathered to warn National Grid bosses: ‘Now the fight begins’.
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More than 300 campaigners, furious at plans to build a 30-mile long high voltage power line across parts of Shropshire and Mid Wales, gathered to warn National Grid bosses: ‘Now the fight begins’.
People from across the region flocked to the Cefn Coch yesterday afternoon to voice their disgust after National Grid revealed it wants to install the 400,000-volt line from a new substation in the village, near Llanfair Caereinion, to an existing transition cable in Lower Frankton, near Oswestry.
It will link windfarms in Mid Wales to England’s national power network and could cost up to £562 million to build, depending on how much of the route is put underground.
Campaigners waving banners and carrying posters chanted ‘no hub here’ during the gathering and said the power line would destroy the countryside.
Huw Morgan, from Llangadfan, near Welshpool, said: “It is a black day for Montgomeryshire and Shropshire, absolutely devastating, it will destroy us.
“These pylons and the turbines are absolutely massive, the biggest around and it is so upsetting for this lovely area.”
Following yesterday’s announcement, Selby Martin, vice-president of the Campaign to Protect Rural England in Shropshire, questioned why the whole route couldn’t be underground after Ofgem recently confirmed that it was setting aside £470 million to bury cables in sensitive areas.
“We completely deplore the construction of overhead pylons across the Shropshire countryside,” he said.
Read more in today's Shropshire Star
Comments for: "Protesters say no to huge pylons across region"
Jet
I can't see why digging a trench is more expensive than building giant towers.
They did it for the National Gas grid.
John
The insulation materiel used on high voltage cables that can withstand a couple hundred kV is expensive.
Edward
Pylons and wind turbines - The bigger they are the harder they fall! But get out of the way when they do. Say no more.
graham
It's a matter of scale
They want to build a 19 Acre substation in a small village.
With all the pylon feeds from the wind farms and the feed to the grid.
Would you move there?
Do you think you could sell your house?
Graham.
Grey
You know putting the cable underground isn't as consequence free as everyone seems to make out. It would involve cutting a great swathe 30 metres wide the whole route of the cable. This line would then be essentially sterilised, nothing could grow on it or be built on because of access and it would be more difficult to repair. Not to mention the impact such a trench might have on underground water supplies etc.
Peter
Are these proposed pylons any more huge than the ones that can be seen across much of the countryside elsewhere in the UK?
dave t
buts they think its fine to dig up the countrysdie to underground them?? odd
Get A Life
NIMBYs - we all need and we all use electric, there's pylons all over the countryside, with never a mention we drive passed hundreds of them each year. Get a life and start enjoying it instead of moaning, want something to moan about how about - 'windchimes'
DAVID EVANS(FOXY)
perhaps you dont know the difference between wind chimes and pylons as you dont live by any of them.try sleeping by one and see if you get a night sleep
DAVID EVANS(FOXY)
we just dont want pylons and wind farms anywhere in wales to spoil the countryside we dont get any cheeper power for a start put it under ground like they use to do. as edward said say no more we know that people mean to stop this and i hope they will.and i know how they will do it i suport the protesters all the way.if they build them i hope the protesters will destroy them.