These are the last few months before the Government makes a decision on AQUIND. We are walking the proposed route to protest, raise awareness and funds. Join in for part or the whole 12 miles to Lovedean. We will leave Fort Cumberland car park, Eastney, Sunday 4th July, 10am. Media and local MPs have been invited. You …
Portsmouth has had illegal and harmful levels of air pollution since 2010, especially in areas like London/Fratton Road. Breathing in the air in these areas on a regular basis can cause or worsen asthma, COPD, lung cancer, strokes, heart disease, etc. It especially impacts babies and children whose lungs are still developing. Making it easier and …
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With the campaign building more momentum, Stop Aquind this last week was featured on ITV news with a segment all about the group and the fight against the interconnector. You can watch the video via the link below. Photos from the filming are below too. WATCH HERE
The May 22nd standing protest along the shoreline of Milton Locks up to Milton Common was a huge success, helping show the community’s strength of feeling about the Aquind Interconnector project and also raising awareness to Portsmouth’s residents new to the issues around the project. Portsmouth City Council members were also there to show unified …
Demonstrate your opposition to Aquind at the Stop Aquind Static Protest by forming a socially distanced line along the Interconnector route on the 22nd May 2021. Gather with placards and banners at the Thatched House car park at Milton Locks or the People’s Memorial on Milton Common and spread at a safe distance along the …
About a dozen Let’s Stop Aquind members spread among the 100 or so activists gathered in Guildhall Square Portsmouth on the 1st of May to express our objection to Aquind Interconnector. We were able to speak at the Stop The Bill demonstration with speeches to the crowd, we demanded the right to express our objections. …
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Today the Aquind Interconnector story made the national press with questions regarding the government minister’s involvement in the project and political donations from Aquind board directors. This article will help shine a spotlight on the project and hopefully raise awareness locally too. “…the shadow business secretary, Ed Miliband, has claimed it would be ‘a total …
Milton Common is a vital green space on the east coast of Portsmouth and is also next to one of only 3 vital and busy roads that lead into the city. Both Milton Common and The Eastern Road are in the crosshairs for the Aquind Interconnector which will plow through the city causing immeasurable damage …
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The Aquind Interconnector Project proposed to cut through the green spaces and communities of Portsmouth and southern Hampshire has been in the press recently for all the worst reasons. Questions are continually being asked about the project, the company and directors plus links to political figures and parties. All these questions make the job of …
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The Kindness Rock Project is where people paint and share rocks around their community, with the aim for them to be found and then moved for another person to discover. People of all ages have painted Let’s Stop Aquind rocks and hidden them at different points along the proposed Aquind Interconnector route through Portsmouth with …
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