Please join Let’s Stop Aquind on Saturday 22nd April 2023 at 12pm till 1 pm at Guildhall Square. Our last opportunity to raise awareness about the Aquind Interconnector project before the deadline for objections the following week. You can see the speaker list (including the local MPs) below and keep up to date with the …
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 …
Read more “Politicians, media and activists join forces to fight Aquind’s judicial review”
The following statement regarding the Aquind Interconnector project is from Portsmouth North’s Penny Mordaunt MP. Thank you to everyone who has been working to stop Aquind and I am sorry not to be with you today. The Aquind project would be bad for our city and bad for our country. There has been a lot …
A great new newspaper article in the Portsmouth News was posted yesterday where Portsmouth North MP Penny Mordaunt details her reasons for supporting the aims of the Lets Stop Aquind Campaign. You can read the article HERE and below are a few interesting quotes from the article: “Our city understands what it is to be …