"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion." Noam Chomsky
Labour to destroy the UK Countryside
February 7th 2025
A new 66 mile pylon route is proposed between the town of Kintore in Aberdeenshire and the village of Tealing in Angus in order to transfer power from wind farms off the north-east coast of Scotland to where the electricity is needed. The steel towers will typically be 187ft (57m) high which is significantly taller than most pylons in Scotland and some could be as tall as 246ft (75m).
The plans are one of the government's key missions, which is a drive to decarbonise the UK's electricity system by 2030. Just over half of our power currently comes from wind, solar, nuclear and biomass. The government wants to raise that to 95% by 2030, in just five years' time. Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband, in an interview with the BBC said that this route is essential to "cut bills, tackle the climate crisis and give us energy security".
Well as we all know the consumer will never see reduced bills. This is a lie. The same lie that was peddled when nuclear power stations were first opened in the UK. As a nation how do we achieve energy security when the companies that will fund these projects and then control the system will, undoubtably be foreign owned, as are many water companies and many railways which has really worked out well for Britain.
Miliband also said the government were committed to supporting communities affected by major projects. Well, his boss Kier Starmer has vowed to ignore the "naysayers" and "nimbys" who stand in the way of national growth. That message was reinforced last week by Chancellor Rachel Reeves who vowed to go "further and faster" in her effort to deliver the government's growth agenda as she announced a series of potentially controversial new infrastructure projects, including backing plans for a third runway at Heathrow. It seems that Miliband is on his own in pledging to listen to people local to these projects. Indeed Reeves has peddled her Heathrow plans based on 'Independent Research' paid for by er .... Heathrow Airport.
As always in the UK this and similar energy projects will be built using outdated, archaic technology. In Europe they do better, investing in proper, modern undergrounding and offshore. In the UK the only criteria is for the construction companies to make huge profits, overspend and over-run. Companies such as EDF will make eye watering profits at the expense of UK consumers whilst ploughing their profits into maintaining a superior system in France for the benefit of French consumers.
The Climate Change Committee which advises the government on the most efficient way to achieve its climate targets, says the industry has reasons for choosing pylons. "One of which is cost, the second is technical, these are really big cables and it's often better for the physics of the energy system to have them up in the air and accessible."
So there you have it, expensive and nasty instead of expensive and good. All that matters is what we have already said, it's all about big business being put before the general population.
However as we have seen over the past few years storms have become progressively more ferocious in the UK and should very tall pylons start toppling in the face of hurricane force winds then millions of consumers will face months without electricity. In this scenario Westminster will be straight into 'blame reform/tories/labour mode (delete as applicable).
