Resources

Contents

• The Campaign to Protect Rural England
• Dr Liam Fox MP
• Electro Magnetic Field (EMF) Radiation
• The Environment
• Health Risks
• House Prices
• National Grid Consultation
• National Policy Statements
• Responses to National Grid
• Superconductor Technology
• Waste of Money

The Campaign to Protect Rural England

CPRE are campaigning for three of the most unsightly lines of pylons in the country to be put underground – and to stop more pylons being erected in some of our most beautiful landscapes. In a new national policy statement the Government recently announced it wants to add at least 12 more lines of overhead pylons across 170 miles of England and Wales. Support the CPRE campaign by submitting the online letter here to the Department of Energy and Climate Change in response to the consultation on the new national policy statement.

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Dr Liam Fox MP

Adjournment debate, House of Commons, January 19th 2010

Dr Fox led an adjournment debate in the House of Commons on January 19th 2010. See news item here: http://yattonagainstpylons.co.uk/2010/01/mps-discuss-national-grids-proposals-in-house-of-commons-debate/

A BBC recording of the debate can be watched here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/house_of_commons/newsid_8465000/8465520.stm?t=38s

A video of the debate (with transcript) is also available here: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2010-01-19a.273.0

Dr Fox’s opening speech is available on his own website here: http://www.liamfoxmp.co.uk/type2show.asp?ref=36&ID=6

Public Meeting, Yatton Rugby Club, January 8th 2010

The following video clips were recorded at a meeting hosted by Yatton Against Pylons and held at Yatton Rugby Club on Friday 8th January 2010. See news item here: Liam Fox MP to seek debate in House of Commons

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Electro Magnetic Field (EMF) Radiation

The following links have been provided by the world expert on EMF radiation: Professor Denis Henshaw, Head of the Human Radiation Effects Group and Professor of Physics at the University of Bristol.

• Human Radiation Effects Group Home Page
• SAGE (Stakeholder Advisory Group on ELF-EMFs) Response to first interim report
• Letter to the Minster of Public Health
• California Health Dept EMF Report 2002
• Trentham Surveys of health effects under powerlines
• Analysis of two EMF Reports
• UK Parliamentary Cross Party Report
• Bio-initiative Report
• Recent PowerPoint presentation


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The Environment

• The Campaign To Protect Rural England’s view: http://www.cpre.org.uk/campaigns/natural-resources/electricity-transmission


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Health Risks

• Increased risk of miscarriage – SUN 11/10/2002
  http://www.powerlinefacts.com/Sun%20Newspaer%20on%20EMF%20impact.htm
• Pylons double leukaemia risk: – GUARDIAN 02/12/1999
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/1999/dec/02/sarahboseley
• Pylons ‘treble cancer’ – BBC NEWS 01/12/1999
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/545086.stm


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House Prices

• Local estate agent Stephen Pring gives his opinion on the effect the pylons could have on property values:
  http://www.save-our-valley.co.uk/resources/Impact%20of%20Pylons.pdf


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National Grid Consultation

• National Grid press release – 29-Jan-10 : NG press release 29-Jan
• Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Grid_plc
• Route Corridor Study Documents http://www.nationalgrid.com/uk/Electricity/MajorProjects/HinkleyConnection/RouteCorridorStudies/index.htm
• The map of corridor 1 and 2 (Mendip Hills AONB, Weston-super-Mare, Yatton, Congresbury and Nailsea)
  http://www.nationalgrid.com/NR/rdonlyres/04E5A12D-10B1-4838-88B1-7A5B4D2A1A41/37883/G1979050eFigure5BInset2200dpi.pdf
• Tower elevation drawings
  http://www.nationalgrid.com/NR/rdonlyres/A5DF3B2B-1BF0-42F5-AB47-62880BDF4E86/37656/Figure12TowerElevations.pdf


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National Policy Statements

The consultation on the draft energy National Policy Statements closes on Monday 22nd February 2010.

Subject to the consultation and Parliamentary scrutiny, the Government intends to finalise and formally approve the energy National Policy Statements in 2010.

These National Policy Statements would then be used by the Infrastructure Planning Commission when it makes decisions on applications for development consent for nationally significant energy infrastructure projects such as the proposed Hinkley Point C Connection.

• Draft Overarching National Policy Statement for Energy (EN-1) :
• Draft National Policy Statement for Electricity Networks Infrastructure (EN-5) :

The NPS process is summarised in the following diagram:

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Responses to National Grid

• Letter by Somerset County Council – 15-Jan-10:
• Puxton Parish Council have responded with a number of letters to National Grid and to Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change, and John Penrose, Conservative MP for Weston Super Mare. These can be found at the Puxton Parish Council website here: http://www.puxtonparishcouncil.org.uk/current-issues.php
• Letter by Wraxall & Failand Parish Council including Ambrose & Pratt Report on National Grid proposals dated December 2009 – 05-Jan-10:
  

• Letter by Tom Leimdorfer, Ward Councillor for Congresbury, North Somerset Council – 30-Dec-09:
• Letter by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) – 30-Dec-09:
• Letter by Mark Parish Council – 18-Dec-09:
• Letter by Dr Liam Fox MP – 03-Dec-09:
  • … and the frankly disappointing response to his letter from David Mercer at National Grid – 16-Dec-09:
• Letter by Yatton Parish Council – 11-Nov-09:
  • … and corresponding response from Peter Bryant, Senior Project Manager at National Grid:


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Superconductor Technology

• A white paper on superconductor pipelines, a technology seemingly overlooked by National Grid. Produced by American Superconductor – Nov 09 :
• A short video on superconductor pipelines can be downloaded from here :


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Waste of Money

• Nailsea resident Dave Gray’s expert opinion on how the National Grid fail to adequately account for escalating wasteful costs: http://www.save-our-valley.co.uk/resources/National%20Grid%20Fail%20to%20adequately%20account%20for%20escalating%20wasteful%20costs.pdf


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