Electricity Transmission Projects - 3rd July 2013

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Electricity Transmission Projects.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2013-07-03/debates/13070366000023/ElectricityTransmissionProjects

11:34 Jonathan Edwards

Western Power Distribution is consulting on routes for electricity poles linking TAN 8 area G in north Carmarthenshire to the national grid in the south of the county. Local people feel strongly that any electric cables should be underground to preserve the beauty of the Tywi valley, and are concerned that the consultation period is far too short. Will the Minister impress upon the Department of Energy and Climate Change and National Grid that such transmission projects in open Welsh countryside should be underground, and at the very least that the WPD consultation should be extended into the autumn?

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