Member

Critically—a point I have spoken about before in your Lordships’ House and will continue to do so—there is the dramatic increase in the number of overhead powerlines that will be required to deliver on this increased capacity. It will not have escaped your Lordships’ notice that in the last few days the first generation of new overhead powerlines since they were first invented, the T-pylons, have now been scrapped because they have proved to be too noisy and expensive. We have had no reaction, as far as I am aware—I stand to be corrected—from any government spokesman or department. If this new generation of powerlines, which was meant to be the answer to all the criticisms of previous generations of powerlines, is to be scrapped and discontinued, what will replace them? Are we going to revert to the existing powerlines?