General News – Let's Stop Aquind

Press Release: Let’s Stop Aquind Refutes Aquind’s Grossly Misleading Claims About Public Support for Its Unwanted Interconnector Project

by Paul SIMGeneral News, Statements July 12, 20240 comments

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 …

Press Release: Let’s Stop Aquind’s Response To The Initial Project Assessment By Ofgem Of The Third Cap And Floor Window For Electricity Interconnectors

by Paul SIMGeneral News, Statements May 8, 20240 comments

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 …

Questions Over Aquind in the National Press

by Paul SIMGeneral News, Newspapers April 5, 20240 comments

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.

Unanswered Questions About Aquind’s Fibre-optic Communications Network

by Paul SIMGeneral News, Research February 26, 2024February 26, 20240 comments

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 …

MoD Intervention Delays Aquind Interconnector Decision

by Paul SIMGeneral News, Newspapers, Reporting February 3, 2024February 3, 20240 comments

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 …

What Has Been Happening The Last Few Months?

by Paul SIMGeneral News, Reporting December 3, 2023December 3, 20230 comments

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 …

Setting The Record Straight – Let’s Stop Aquind Corrects Claims Made By Aquind Limited’s PR Representative On GB News TV

by Paul SIMGeneral News, Reporting, Statements August 23, 2023August 23, 20230 comments

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 …

Response to the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero’s Request

by Paul SIMGeneral News August 2, 20230 comments

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 …

Let’s Stop Aquind Objections to the Secretary of State (Part 1)

by Paul SIMGeneral News May 12, 2023May 12, 20230 comments

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 …

Protect Portsmouth Rally

by Paul SIMEvents, General News April 17, 20230 comments

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 …

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