Disfiguring The Environment

There is a very special part of England, the eastern part of East Anglia. It has areas of special landscape importance and this was made famous by the paintings of John Constable in the eighteenth century.

During the course of the twenty-first century, one of the means of generating electricity that has really grown has been wind power. This means that the transmission of electricity from the East Anglian coast to the great centres of population, especially London, has become paramount. The government seems to be hell-bent on building pylons for this, these being highly disfiguring and offensive, causing harm to the natural habitat and heritage context of the environment. Many people wish to stop the building of pylons with aerial cables and also to the very wide, open trenches needed to underground ac cables that require the removal of all trees, hedgerows and obstacles in their path. The whole enterprise, including new roads and storage compounds and massive electrical infrastructure in large compounds will profoundly affect what tranquillity that remains in that part of the country.

There are alternatives – off shore and now the thought of trenched DC cables. Will they see sense? Is there a competent decision maker who can navigate the field of possibilities?