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For the second time in four months, the banks of the River Witham near Fiskerton have been breached, leading villagers to blame the reoccurring floods on the volume of water flowing from Lincoln.
Plans for a billion-pound 87-mile electric pylon network through Lincolnshire will be funded by customer bills across the next four decades — and if critics’ wishes for underground cable alternatives are met, it will mean paying almost six times more. Critics of the plan insist that if this must go ahead, alternatives such as subsea use or underground cabling should be taken into consideration.
Lincolnshire’s district council leaders are now taking a stand and calling on the National Grid to reconsider its plans. Cllr Anne Dorrian of Boston Borough Council, Cllr Craig Leyland of East Lindsey District Council, and Cllr Nick Worth of South Holland District Council said: “We recognise the national importance of major energy projects like this to help improve our infrastructure and tackle the energy crisis we are currently seeing, as well as to create greater grid capacity and investment opportunities in our own sub-region.
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