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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An ongoing project by local people engaged with the Let’s Stop Aquind campaign is to get creative through Craftivism, using different crafts to help raise awareness of the Aquind Interconnector in Portsmouth. Loads of local creatives have put their artistic and craft skills to good use in a number of different ways including a huge …
Local children got involved in raising awareness of the proposed Aquind Interconnector route through their city recently by creating their own posters to raise awareness in Portsmouth. At points along the route through Eastney, Milton and going north their artwork draws attention to the community’s will to stop the disruption, prevent the damage to the …
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Back in October people from all over Portsmouth came together to both highlight the damaging route the planned cables would take through the city but also the huge support for the campaign to stop Aquid. People brought posters, banners, signs and much more, with local press and TV documenting the protest. Solent Sky Services documented …