{"id":345061,"date":"2024-10-03T10:06:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T08:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=345061"},"modified":"2024-10-03T10:06:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T08:06:24","slug":"ed-miliband-faces-growing-legal-threat-over-pylons-roll-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=345061","title":{"rendered":"Ed Miliband faces growing legal threat over pylons roll-out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Council leaders warn energy infrastructure will \u2018wreck\u2019 countryside<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ed Miliband is facing a growing legal threat from a string of councils over his decision to unleash a wave of electricity pylons across Britain<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local leaders in Essex, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk have said the Energy Secretary will \u201cwreck\u201d their landscapes by rolling out vast swathes of green energy infrastructure.\u00a0The Telegraph<\/a> has the story.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They claim that their countryside will be disproportionately affected by the rollout, which they say will scare off tourists and ruin farmland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, all four have warned that they will launch a High Court challenge to block Mr Miliband\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It comes after the Energy Secretary recently vowed to \u201ctake on the blockers\u201d who oppose the Government\u2019s clean energy proposals, claiming that defeating Nimbys on net zero was a matter of \u201cnational security\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, a growing backlash is beginning to take shape<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colin Davie, Lincolnshire\u2019s executive councillor for planning, said: \u201cThousands of people are already objecting to Mr Miliband\u2019s plans to ruin our countryside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe has already approved solar farms across 10,000 acres of high quality Lincolnshire farmland, with many more set to be covered in concrete for national grid pylons and substations,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd we have another 24 energy projects in planning which are so large they are deemed to be of national importance – meaning Mr Miliband makes the decisions rather than local people. We have a flat rural landscape which is going to be ruined forever by these massive turbines, pylons and solar farms.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The joint move by four major local authorities is reminiscent of the backlash against renewables seen 10 years ago when David Cameron\u2019s government tried to pave the way for new wind farms across England. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the fury those plans generated later forced his government to row back on plans and impose an effective ban on onshore wind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of Mr Miliband\u2019s first moves as Energy Secretary was to lift that ban, meaning thousands of turbines are now expected to be built across England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They will be in addition to a flood of new electricity pylons, which are integral to the National Grid expanding its system as the country moves away from gas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new pylons will carry electricity from Scottish wind farms to England\u2019s southern cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These will run through all four of the counties pursuing the prospective legal challenge, although protests are likely to arise along other pylon routes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Criticism will intensify given that planned new power lines will make the surrounding area ideal for new wind and solar farms by providing them with easy connection points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Developers are already targeting Lincolnshire with planning applications for 11 large-scale solar farms, while applications for onshore wind farms are also expected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ed Miliband is facing a growing legal threat from a string of councils over his decision to unleash a wave of electricity pylons across Britain. <\/p>\n

Local leaders in Essex, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk have said the Energy Secretary will \u201cwreck\u201d their landscapes by rolling out vast swathes of green energy infrastructure. 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