Danger - take action against 46m high pylons carrying 400,000 volts of electricity from Hinkley Point to Avonmouth which will cut up our villages and destroy them forever!
3rd March, 2010. Due to public pressure National Grid has announced plans to hold a series of events to further explain the background to its proposals for a new overhead electricity line between Bridgwater and Avonmouth. Click here to find out more.
What you can do to help:
Urgent news just in! We needyour help before the 19th February!
Please write to the National Grid before this Friday, 19th February to insist that there are other ways to carry electricity! At the moment the National Policy Statements (NPS) EN1 and EN5 are written on the assumption that the only method to transmit electricity is by these 1960′s pylons. Please write before the 19th February to insist that EN5 and EN1 are changed – remember that these are our national Policy statements; have your say in how YOU want them forumulated. Click here to find out more about how to write your letter.
Click here to see a map showing the proposed pylon routes.
Ugly Pylon - imagine this twice as high!
These are the pylons that currently cross Mark, Causeway. Imagine them twice as high as the one pictured below to the right… This is what we’re up against!
News …
18th February 2010: Somerset County Council yesterday have condemmed National Grid’s first round of consultation as ‘fundamentally flawed.’ Read more
27th January: Anti Hinkley Point C Connection Project march this Saturday. Meet at Christon Church, Loxton. Please support us! Read more here.
22nd January: Choosing between pylon routes is like being asked to choose between hanging and beheading, Westminster heard. Read the full story on This is Somerset.
21st January: National Grid transmission director Nick Winser promised Parliament “complete openness” on economics and technical feasibility of undergrounding power lines when he was quizzed by MPs. Read the full story on the Government Planning Portal.
Save our Valley write compelling response to National Grid. Click here to read the report.
Warning: Do not talk to National Grid Solicitors! Click here to find out why.
Pylon the Pressure is against the National Grid Hinkley Point C Proposal to route 37 miles of new 400,000 volt power lines and pylons through Somerset.
We oppose BOTH routes! Make sure you do too!
The final decision made will be based on environmental impact, cost of implementation and the degree of public objection. The National Grid have not carried out adequate consultation with the people it will affect.
Pylon distorting a natural view in Somerset
Pylon Height - Castle Head house (situated on the A38) against a scale model of a 152 ft pylon.
Somerset Proposed Pylon Size
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