With all the attention around the courts at the moment, Aquind has been in the news and so has Stop Aquind. Have a read of the latest articles linked below: Aquind hearing: a five-year fight sees latest battle in the Royal Courts of JusticeFacing hundreds of pages of documentation on Aquind’s five-year fight to dig …
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Download this press statement as a PDF On 20 January 2022, the then Secretary of State for the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Kwasi Kwarteng, refused to grant Aquind Limited the Development Consent Order (DCO) it sought for the Aquind Interconnector – a decision that was widely celebrated in Portsmouth. The residents …
We have heard that Aquind Limited has been given permission to bring a Judicial Review of the Secretary of State for Business and Energy’s decision not to allow Aquind’s proposed Interconnector, consisting of high voltage electrical cables and a communications network between Northern France and the South Downs. Let’s Stop Aquind is disappointed that Aquind …
Let’s Stop Aquind co-founders Paula Savage and Viola Langley joined a virtual meeting with both Portsmouth MP’s, Council Leader Gerald Vernon-Jackson and the Editor of the Portsmouth News Mark Waldron yesterday. The meeting discussed the ongoing threat that the Aquind Interconnector poses to the environment, the residents of Portsmouth & the South Downs, and to …
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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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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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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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