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However, every time I and others have raised the alternative to overhead power lines—their burial—we have been rebutted by the statistics about that being five or 10 times more expensive. Those figures have been produced, I think, by National Grid, but I do not believe that they have been properly examined. I also do not believe that other factors have been taken into consideration, such as the effect on quality of life and quality of landscape, as well as the effect on people coming to this country, should they be greeted by miles and miles of unsightly power lines marching over our hills.