{"id":2590,"date":"2022-07-13T15:28:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T15:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=2590"},"modified":"2023-06-16T13:01:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T13:01:19","slug":"east-anglia-green-letter-to-minister-for-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=2590","title":{"rendered":"East Anglia GREEN, Letter to Minister for Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>John Whittingdale and 12 of his colleagues have signed a second letter to Energy Minister, Greg Hands, putting forward our increasing concerns with National Grid and their handling of the East Anglia GREEN proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is very clear John&#8217;s constituents support an offshore grid option that would protect our local countryside and communities- however this has not been listened to by National Grid when these views were overwhelmingly expressed in the public consultation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John agrees that the consultation should be opened back up, so all the options can be discussed again, properly- and fairly, like similar proposals in other parts of the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Enough is enough &#8211; 13 MPs say <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nationalgriduk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nationalgriduk<\/a> must reopen the East Anglia GREEN pylon consultation. Protection of rural communities must be given the same weight in East Anglia as in other parts of the UK. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OffSET?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OffSET<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ctdkzKHTSy\">pic.twitter.com\/ctdkzKHTSy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; James Cartlidge MP \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@jcartlidgemp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jcartlidgemp\/status\/1545382308844290048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Whittingdale and 12 of his colleagues have signed a second letter to Energy Minister, Greg Hands, putting forward our increasing concerns with National Grid and their handling of the East Anglia GREEN proposal. It is very clear John&#8217;s constituents support an offshore grid option that would protect our local countryside and communities- however this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3005,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions\/3005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}