Questions Over Aquind in the National Press
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.
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 …
Read more “Unanswered Questions About Aquind’s Fibre-optic Communications Network”
This week’s big news is that the Ministry of Defence has intervened in the Government’s long awaited Aquind Interconnector decision. The BBC news website had the story but it doesn’t say exactly what the MoD’s concerns were in regards to the project. There is naturally speculation regarding the reasons behind this move, it could be …
Read more “MoD Intervention Delays Aquind Interconnector Decision”
It has been a strange mix of quiet in regards to the decision but a flurry of activity from Let’s Stop Aquind, Portsmouth City Council and the local MPs in response to the issues. Here is a quick update on some of the recent events. One of the key moments was the new Secretary of …
Further to Aquind Limited’s PR representative Johnny Stonborough appearing on GB News last week, Let’s Stop Aquind (LSA) feels that it is necessary to rectify the statements he made. Firstly, he referred (at 8 seconds in the clip on X, formerly Twitter) to the “unbelievable” amount of electricity that the Aquind interconnector would apparently bring to …
On the 27th July Let’s Stop Aquind responded in detail to the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero’s request for comments on the matters contained in the Portsmouth City Council and national grid documents dated 28/4/23, from Viola Langley (interested party in the matter of the Aquind Interconnector DCO proposal), submitted on …
Read more “Response to the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero’s Request”
Back in March 2023 the Secretary of State extended the deadline that people can send in objections from the end of March to the 28th of April. Let’s Stop Aquind spent weeks researching and compiling a mountain of information to build a significant and compelling argument against the viability of the Aquind Interconnector project. This …
Read more “Let’s Stop Aquind Objections to the Secretary of State (Part 1)”
Please join Let’s Stop Aquind on Saturday 22nd April 2023 at 12pm till 1 pm at Guildhall Square. Our last opportunity to raise awareness about the Aquind Interconnector project before the deadline for objections the following week. You can see the speaker list (including the local MPs) below and keep up to date with the …
You would be fair minded to think that the original deadline of just 28 days (the month of March 2023) for allowing for responses to the Aquind Interconnector was not long enough. More so considering the short notice given too as it was announced on the 3rd of March. News today is that due to …
Read more “Deadline for Objections Extended to 28th of April by Secretary of State”
Dig deep enough (sorry!) in to the Aquind planning application details and you can find some information on the approach to the digging of the trench for the proposed interconnector power cables but it is hard to visualise the scale of the work needed. All the more so when the planned cable trenches would run …