Member

I will not rehearse all the arguments I have made in the past about bird life and the destruction of great swathes of our agricultural land and landscape, but I draw your Lordships’ attention to what has happened in Greece over the summer because of wildfires, some of which were caused by overhead power lines. Is it the most intelligent thing we can do in the long term to have more overhead power lines, which are more susceptible to power outages and which could cause wildfires, as we have witnessed elsewhere in Europe?