{"id":5619,"date":"2009-11-18T12:54:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T12:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chopsybaby.com\/mag\/?p=5619"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:39:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T10:39:01","slug":"valley-campaign-growing-against-national-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chopsybaby.com\/magazine\/valley-campaign-growing-against-national-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Valley campaign growing against National Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A resident campaign group is continuing to win regional support against the National Grid&#8217;s plans to run 40,000 volt power lines through Green Belt countryside.<\/p>\n<p>The Save Our Valley campaign group now has 1,500 supporters through its website and Facebook page with numbers expected to increase rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>The pylons which will link Hinkley C to a substation in Avonmouth could rip through the Backwell, Wraxall and Nailsea area.<\/p>\n<p>This week, more than 160 supporters delivered 12,000 leaflets across the area to make sure that all local residents are fully informed about the pylon possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Save Our Valley spokesman Sue Turner said: \u201cWe are delighted that so many people have signed up to support Save Our Valley and are actively campaigning.\u00a0 It is a testament to their commitment to seeing off this threat that local residents are not just giving their support from the comfort of their armchairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the awful weather people are going door to door delivering leaflets, badges and car stickers and making sure that the threat posed by National Grid\u2019s plans is fully understood.\u00a0 We\u2019re still finding that many people haven\u2019t heard about the proposals and are shocked when we tell them.\u00a0 It goes to show what a poor job National Grid has done of informing people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Save Our Valley is organising a Public Meeting at Scotch Horn Leisure Centre in Nailsea at 7.30pm on Friday 27 November where people can find out more and get help on how to have their say.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit: www.save-our-valley.co.uk <\/p>\n<p>Read the Squiffy Teddy coverage of the Hinkley C Project here: http:\/\/chopsybaby.com\/mag\/?p=5515<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A resident campaign group is continuing to win regional support against the National Grid&#8217;s plans to run 40,000 volt power<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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