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Campaigners blast Prime Minister Liz Truss for not weighing in on East Anglia GREEN project




Campaigners have accused the embattled Prime Minister of ignoring their desperate pleas for help to block plans for 110 miles of 50-metre-high pylons across Norfolk and Suffolk.

The East Anglia Green project will see pylons built along the A140, running between Bressingham and Roydon, towards its destination at Tilbury, on the Thames estuary.

The Essex Suffolk Norfolk Pylons (ESNP) campaign group says it has been refused repeated requests for meetings with the Department for Business Offshore Network Team to negotiate the reopening of a review into the controversial project.

Campaigners have urged the South-West Norfolk MP to weigh in on the controversial plans. Picture: Mark Bullimore Photography 2020.
Campaigners have urged the South-West Norfolk MP to weigh in on the controversial plans. Picture: Mark Bullimore Photography 2020.

Despite fellow MPs Richard Bacon and Dr Dan Poulter opposing the project, the other MP in the Diss Express area, Prime Minister and South West Norfolk MP Liz Truss, is yet to weigh in on the issue.

ESNP spokeswoman Rosie Pearson said the group was being given the cold shoulder by the PM.

Ms Pearson said: “Prime Minister Liz Truss announced last week that community consent will be needed before gas can be extracted by fracking, so why does this requirement not also apply to energy infrastructure?

“Although she is an East Anglian MP, she still has not bothered to respond to our repeated emails seeking her views.”

The ESNP is urging all those concerned about pylons or other electricity infrastructure in East Anglia to write to Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg and demand that a recent offshore network review is reopened to fully examine the viability of an alternative offshore grid – known as Sea Link 2.

The PM is currently battling a separate political storm after the recent mini-budget caused her polling numbers to plummet.

Bressingham campaigner Alan Lloyd warned: “This government needs to take note. If they throw us under a pylons bus, we will throw them under one at the next election, which may not be too far off.”



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