The Leader of Portsmouth City Council has sent the following letter to Kwasi Kwarteng, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the letter is below: Dear Mr Kwarteng MP Re: Aquind Interconnector Application I am writing about the Aquind Interconnector application, which will take a major electricity line through Portsmouth, from the south …
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Earlier in October, The News headed up to London to deliver in-person copies of their ‘Just Say No’ front-page story newspapers. Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has now been presented with the views of Portsmouth over the controversial £1.2bn interconnector plan. You can read the online article about the story HERE.
It has been a very busy month of October with the press really shining the spotlight on possible corruption with some of the major players in the sphere of the Aquind Interconnector project. The release of the Pandora Papers has also uncovered some very interesting revelations too. Read some of the stories below: Quarter of …
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Today’s decision by Kwasi Kwarteng, Secretary of State at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to delay a final answer on Aquind until 2022 is disappointing to say the least. We have always welcomed further scrutiny of this project but time is up. He must stop kicking this down the road and …
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The leaks emerging from the Pandora Papers confirm some of the concerns that we’ve had about the AQUIND interconnector all along. Our campaign to stop Aquind was founded on the back of their poor community consultation and an unfeasible route that would risk environmental damage and cause disruption to our city, wildlife and businesses. On …
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We have been sent this new article in a French newspaper, you can read it below.
Back on the 3rd September Let’s Stop Aquind Chair, Viola Langley, met with Portsmouth Council Leader Cllr Gerald Vernon-Jackson to jointly work on the next steps in the campaign to Stop the Aquind Interconnector coming through Portsmouth and the Hampshire countryside. The City Council team, on the call included the Head of Planning (Ian Maguire) …
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Let’s Stop Aquind, the grassroots community pressure group formed to stop the Aquind Interconnector, calls for an immediate halt to the project’s Development Consent Order application process and a thorough and transparent enquiry into the relationship between the Conservative Party and Aquind Limited. The last three months have seen one revelation after another as the …
The Leader of Portsmouth City Council, Cllr Gerald Vernon-Jackson, on the 4th August 2021 written to the Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng MP, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, to highlight Aquind Interconnector national security concerns. With the Planning Inspectorate report done and a decision soon to come, this issue is an important …
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