Comments on: Permitting is a crunch issue for grid development http://www.ewea.org/blog/2010/11/permitting-is-a-crunch-issue-for-grid-development/ Breath of fresh air Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:44:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: David Holland http://www.ewea.org/blog/2010/11/permitting-is-a-crunch-issue-for-grid-development/#comment-11007 David Holland Mon, 07 Mar 2011 05:50:28 +0000 http://www.ewea.org/blog/?p=1056#comment-11007 Demanding that the very technology that is used to save the environment is not the same technology that spoils it does not make people NIMBYs. Your industry’s plans destroy the possibility that others might capitalise on the amenity value and beauty of the landscape within huge swathes of countryside. You now have economically viable technologies to put necessary on-land grid underground and to carry the major burden of transmission undersea around the UK. If you truly believe that you can undermine the opposition that exists to your plans to despoil the landscape with a tidal wave of new pylons by calling them nimbys, then you will surely discover that there are tens of thousands of people within the UK who will oppose your plans for more 1930′s technology with a well argued technical and economic case for your embracing 21st century technology, to save the landscape from your scaremongering efforts to adhere to the transmission technology you know and are comfortable with, but which the public know to be an unacceptable and, with todays technology, unnecessary detriment to the UK landscape.

As I pointed out at the beginning of this comment, your industry has no right to despoil the landscape with the very technology you claim yourselves to be saving it with. There is a better way.

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