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Stop Aquind receives update from the president of NON A AQUIND in France

France – 24 July 2025 We’ve received an update from our friends in France NON A AQUIND: A meeting with the Minister for energy took place on the 24th July. Aquind still has to go through many hurdles to get their project accepted by France.  These steps will be lengthy and will not oblige the …

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Press Release: Responding to the Visit of Portsmouth MP’s Stephen Morgan And Amanda Martin to Minister for The Armed Forces Luke Pollard

Portsmouth, Hampshire – 12th March 2024 Let’s Stop Aquind was pleased that both Portsmouth’s MPs discussed the case against the Aquind Interconnector at their recent meeting with Defence Minister Luke Pollard. We embrace the views expressed by both our MPs, as they highlighted the national security risks posed by the project, alongside longstanding questions over …

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Let’s Stop Aquind New 2025 Submission to the Secretary of State for Energy and Net Zero

Portsmouth, Hampshire – 18th February 2025 Let’s Stop Aquind’s response to the Ministry of Defence’s objections to theAquind Interconnector and associated issues You can read the full submission PDF that was sent HERE. The same applies to the letter from Capt Lee McLocklan, Captain of the Base (Portsmouth) and Deputy Naval Base Commander of HMNB …

MoD Objection Might Spell the End of Aquind Interconnector?

Recently the details of the previously announced Ministry of Defence objection to the Aquind Interconnector project have been made available and shine a light on what areas of the project raised concerns and why. You can read the full detail of the objection online on the Planning Inspectorate website via the link below: Ministry of …

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

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 …

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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

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 …

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Unanswered Questions About Aquind’s Fibre-optic Communications Network

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

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 …

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New Video: ‘Pandora’s Box – The Aquind Interconnector and Contaminated Land’

This new video is a deep dive in to the issues surrounding the proposed Aquind Interconnector project and the legacy of contaminated land in Portsmouth. The proposed route for deep trench digging will be past or through some locations that are well documented to contain heavy metals, asbestos and more contaminants. A full list of sources …