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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