Glyn Davies, Conservative MP for Montgomeryshire, has dismissed National Grid’s announcement of its plans for the Mid Wales Connection Project as “a damp squib”.
National Grid have announced that underground cabling will be used for 8 miles of the 33 mile route through the Meifod Valley, with three quarters of the route using newly erected pylons, and that its new 20 acre substation will be constructed on the site of the proposed Tir Gwynt wind farm.
Commenting on the announcement, Glyn Davies MP said:
“National Grid built up to this announcement about the future of the Mid Wales Connection Project with great fanfare, but it’s told us nothing that we didn’t know already.
“We already knew that part of its ‘Line of Destruction’ was going to be undergrounded -we now know that this will only amount to 25% of its length. This is only a quarter of the way to what National Grid should be proposing.
“It’s increasingly obvious that National Grid is totally disillusioned with the Mid Wales Connection Project. I have no doubt that National Grid Chairman Sir Peter Gershon knows that the Project is appalling value for tax payers money, a hideous scar on beautiful landscape, and an abomination in terms of local democracy.
“Why on earth doesn’t Sir Peter Gershon show some courage and state publically that the only reason National Grid is still working on this terrible scheme is because it is legally required to do so, and that he accepts that the Mid Wales Connection Project is bad for the company’s reputation, bad for its customers and bad for the environment.”
