ENERGY HUB FEARS
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[This letter appeared in "The Times" today — do share it!
It has gone viral, thanks to Joanna Lumley!]
Sir, A vast tract of Suffolk’s most beautiful countryside is slated to disappear under a sea of concrete with Scottish Power Renewables (SPR) and National Grid’s destructive plans to build potentially the largest onshore energy-hub in Europe. National Grid failed to present the true scale of their projects to the Planning Inspectorate.
The Energy Minister’s imminent decision on East Anglia One North (EA1N) and East Anglia Two (EA2) [offshore windfarms] will enable six further towering structures, sacrificing land at Snape, close to the 6th-century Anglo Saxon cemetery and home of Benjamin Britten’s Snape Maltings Concert Hall. A "split decision" is suggested — to continue building wind turbines, but to pivot to offshore integrated cabling to brownfield sites.
SPR and National Grid covetously call Suffolk’s heritage coast “the energy coast”. They threaten fragile ecosystems, diverse wildlife, Aldeburgh and the thriving local tourist economy. Planned industrialisation on this scale is a national issue, and anything but green.
[Also see today's BBC News online article
"Stars say Suffolk wind farm plans 'anything but green'."]
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