A campaign group set up to fight plans for a new pylon line in Lincolnshire has branched out to also fight ‘all large-scale infrastructure projects’.
Those behind No Pylons Lincolnshire have now launched Lincolnshire Against Needless Destruction (LAND).
“Over the past year more information has slowly been revealed to show that the Grimsby to Walpole (in Norfolk) proposal was a beginning of a mass infrastructure invasion of Lincolnshire and not the end,” a spokesman said. “The fight is now on all over the county to prevent infrastructure Lincolnshire does not need. It has been oft repeated in the past months that Lincolnshire is to become a dumping ground for energy infrastructure and its nasty by-products.
“LAND is set to stand against massive substations, soil-destroying underground cabling and huge solar developments planned for the finest crop-growing land in the country.”
The group has been set up by Cat Makinson.
“The past year has been a slog defending the county against pylons,” she said in a statement. “We have all been on a huge learning curve.
“So we are prepared for the extra effort that LAND will bring.
“We are now issuing a call for help.
“We need more like-minded people to help with our work focussing primarily on Eastern Green Link, Ossian and Outer Dowsing offshore wind-generating projects.
“We will also be working with the existing Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects solar campaigns and cover those NSIP proposals which currently have no active campaigns.
“We will push for better alternatives to the current rush for energy security that threatens our food security, our local environment, economy and tourism.
“LAND is not against clean, green, renewable home-grown energy.
“It is against the current rush to achieve this in the cheapest and most destructive way that we, our children and our grandchildren will have to live with for the rest of their lives.
“Carving up and dumping on a rural, agricultural county such as Lincolnshire is not the way to go.”
Anybody who wants to get involved can email [email protected]
