France – 24 July 2025 We’ve received an update from our friends in France NON A AQUIND: A meeting with the Minister for energy took place on the 24th July. Aquind still has to go through many hurdles to get their project accepted by France. These steps will be lengthy and will not oblige the …
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Portsmouth, Hampshire – 12th March 2024 Let’s Stop Aquind was pleased that both Portsmouth’s MPs discussed the case against the Aquind Interconnector at their recent meeting with Defence Minister Luke Pollard. We embrace the views expressed by both our MPs, as they highlighted the national security risks posed by the project, alongside longstanding questions over …
Portsmouth, Hampshire – 18th February 2025 Let’s Stop Aquind’s response to the Ministry of Defence’s objections to theAquind Interconnector and associated issues You can read the full submission PDF that was sent HERE. The same applies to the letter from Capt Lee McLocklan, Captain of the Base (Portsmouth) and Deputy Naval Base Commander of HMNB …
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The recently released Led By Donkeys book covers their many different protests and activities over the years and as part of that it includes when they visited Portsmouth and worked with Stop Aquind. You can get the book at physical and online bookstores and if you visit HERE there are some discounts on the Led …
Questions raised around national security and the Aquind Interconnector by the Ministry of Defence in their recent submitted objection to the project (more details of their concerns were also kept in a secret report) have been discussed in the national press as the story has become public. Two key articles of note that are worth …
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Recently the details of the previously announced Ministry of Defence objection to the Aquind Interconnector project have been made available and shine a light on what areas of the project raised concerns and why. You can read the full detail of the objection online on the Planning Inspectorate website via the link below: Ministry of …
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Portsmouth, Hampshire – 10th July 2024 With regulators on both sides of the English Channel(1) minded to reject the Aquind Interconnector(2) and the Ministry of Defence preparing to submit evidence of its “significant national security concerns” around the project(3), Aquind Limited yesterday made grossly misleading claims about the level of public support for the Aquind Interconnector in …
Portsmouth, Hampshire – 19th April 2024 Let’s Stop Aquind (LSA), the Portsmouth based local grassroots movement, considers in this document Ofgem’s Initial Project Assessment of the third cap and floor window for electricity interconnectors1 and CRE ‘s public consultation document on the opportunity for new electricity interconnection capacity between France and the United Kingdom, no …
Over the last week or so there has been a number of new newspaper (The I and The Times) articles about the issues around the Aquind Interconnector project, you can read them below.
By looking at sources in the public domain, we have pieced together the story of the high capacity fibre-optic communications network that Aquind, despite its recent denials, is still planning to install alongside the HVDC interconnector cables from France. While Aquind has removed the wording relating to the commercial use of the surplus capacity of these fibre-optic …
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