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SEA LINK DCO REGISTRATION IS OPEN

SEA LINK DCO REGISTRATION IS OPEN

May 8, 2025

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗗𝗖𝗢 (𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗢𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿) 𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗶𝘀 𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘! 𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡-𝗨𝗣 𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗬 in order to have 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 say on National Grid's devastating Sea Link plans. Please head over to 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻-𝘂𝗽.𝘂𝗸 OR𝘄𝘄𝘄.𝘀𝘂𝗳𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.𝗰𝗼.𝘂𝗸/𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸-𝗱𝗰𝗼-𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿...

SEAS Response to Ofgem’s Call for Evidence on NGET’s Business Plan

SEAS Response to Ofgem’s Call for Evidence on NGET’s Business Plan

Feb 15, 2025

OFGEM recently CALLED FOR EVIDENCE from stakeholders on network company electricity transmission business plans, and SEAS have pointed out many failings in NGET's business plan.READ the Full SEAS Response HERE Ofgem sets the price controls to ensure that monopoly...

Press Release: SEAS proposes new fast track solution for ScottishPower EA2

Press Release: SEAS proposes new fast track solution for ScottishPower EA2

Oct 21, 2024

During the ScottishPower ( SPR) Development Consent Order ( DCO) Examinations in 2020/21, our local campaign group Suffolk Energy Action Solutions ( SEAS) challenged ScottishPower on a number of issues relating to the cable trench route. One of our particular concerns...

SEAS Response to Ofgem Consultation

SEAS Response to Ofgem Consultation

Oct 8, 2024

SEAS recently responded to Ofgem's Regional Energy Strategic Plan policy framework consultation. We stressed the importance of spatial energy strategy planning and that it should be based on key design principles. 1. Refurbish/upgrade onshore infrastructure to...

SEAS Response to Ofgem Consultation re Accelerated Funding & Approval Framework

SEAS Response to Ofgem Consultation re Accelerated Funding & Approval Framework

Aug 31, 2024

We have been bombarded with developer and Ofgem consultations recently including this 'Consultation on the proposed regulatory funding and approval framework for onshore transitional Centralised Strategic Network Plan 2 projects'. In our opinion this consultation...

Supporter Email Exchange With Ofgem re Nautilus Consultation

Supporter Email Exchange With Ofgem re Nautilus Consultation

Aug 16, 2024

One of our supporters recently had an interesting exchange with an 'Engagement Analyst' at Ofgem, who replies to some emails on behalf of Ofgem's CEO Jonathan Brearley. See the exchange below with 1. The original email, 2. The Ofgem reply and then 3. The further...

SEAS Response to Ofgem’s Nautilus Consultation

SEAS Response to Ofgem’s Nautilus Consultation

Aug 14, 2024

Nautilus has changed plans deciding to come to Friston after all, and Ofgem has held a consultation on these changes for which we had to submit our views by 15 August. The revised plans will require the construction of a dedicated substation at Friston and an...

SEAS Response to Sea Link Additional Consultation

SEAS Response to Sea Link Additional Consultation

Aug 10, 2024

In Newsletter 149 we introduced the changes that NGET are proposing in the Sea Link Project Update and we advised supporters of how to submit guidance and the points to focus on in Newsletter 152. SEAS has now submitted its own more detailed feedback and you can READ...

Therese Coffey speaks out: “my constituents have been shafted”.

Therese Coffey speaks out: “my constituents have been shafted”.

Apr 18, 2024

Therese Coffey has been busy on our behalf. On 29 March, Suffolk Coastal's MP spoke with forthright candour to the Delegated Legislation Committee, which was considering the Government's Strategy and Policy Statement for Energy - WATCH her informative speech HERE...

SEAS Response to the LionLink EIA Scoping Document

SEAS Response to the LionLink EIA Scoping Document

Apr 7, 2024

SEAS analysed LionLink’s massive Environmental Impact Scoping Report, and sent its formal response objecting on four counts:1) Roads and Traffic2) Tourism and Hospitality3) Coastal erosion and Geology4) Biodiversity and Ecology READ the SEAS Response to the LionLink...

EADT: Friston suffering ‘disproportionate harm’ councillors say

EADT: Friston suffering ‘disproportionate harm’ councillors say

Mar 22, 2024

SEAS protested against unnecessary National Grid onshore infrastructure outside Suffolk County Council's Endeavour House office on Thursday 21 March ahead of their meeting. The leader of Suffolk County Council said the authority 'recognised the impact' plans to...

Wake Up National Grid You Are Out Of Date

Wake Up National Grid You Are Out Of Date

Mar 12, 2024

Last week, we were assailed with devastating news regarding LionLink’s plans:LionLink’s Non-Statutory Consultation documents, confirmed proposals for ANOTHER HUGE 26 m HIGH SAXMUNDHAM CONVERTER STATION and LANDFALLS at WALBERSWICK or REYDON/ SOUTHWOLD, all...

SEAS Meeting with Suffolk County Council

SEAS Meeting with Suffolk County Council

Feb 21, 2024

On 7 February there was a SEAS Meeting with Suffolk County Council, about SCC's unsatisfactory response to the Sealink consultation and the recent National Grid ESO East Anglia Study Roundtable discussions, with Councillor Richard Rout, Phil Watson (Strategic Energy...

BBC Article re SeaLink – SEAS quoted

BBC Article re SeaLink – SEAS quoted

Dec 19, 2023

Consultation on Suffolk-Kent Sea Link project ends after 1k responses. SEAS David McKenna says, "..the problem is over a number of decades the government has effectively surrendered control of this industry to the private sector."

SEAS Response to SeaLink Consultation

SEAS Response to SeaLink Consultation

Dec 18, 2023

SEAS sent a detailed response to SeaLink about their recent Statutory Consultation, pushing back against their unsatisfactory consultation and misguided plans

SEAS in EADT – Concerns OCSS wind farm funding will ‘end Suffolk oasis’

Dec 7, 2023

Fiona Gilmore gets great balanced coverage + a poor response from National Grid.

EADT Therese Coffey at SEAS meeting, ‘unleashed’ by resignation

EADT Therese Coffey at SEAS meeting, ‘unleashed’ by resignation

Nov 21, 2023

Suffolk Coastal MP Therese Coffey told a SEAS campaigners' meeting she has been 'unleashed' to help community groups fighting plans to route electricity cables through the Suffolk countryside.

URGENT PUBLIC MEETING – Saxmundham’s Energy Projects

URGENT PUBLIC MEETING – Saxmundham’s Energy Projects

Nov 17, 2023

National Grid's plans to site 3 Converter Stations on the East side of Sax. SEAS Fiona Gilmore will present the offshore alternative to industrialising Suffolk Coastal.

Sealink- BBC ‘Suffolk residents concerned about Sea Link cable project’

Sealink- BBC ‘Suffolk residents concerned about Sea Link cable project’

Nov 9, 2023

National Grid is planning Sealink a 90-mile (145km) project connecting Friston and Richborough in Kent, including connection points on land, to take excess energy out of Suffolk which should go offshore closer to London

BBC Radio Suffolk – Aldeburgh: The Sea Link proposals

BBC Radio Suffolk – Aldeburgh: The Sea Link proposals

Nov 9, 2023

Interviews from the Sealink public consultation - featuring SEAS David McKenna

LionLink – Suffolk County Council criticises power cable scheme

LionLink – Suffolk County Council criticises power cable scheme

Nov 5, 2023

Plans for a huge electricity cable to come onshore near protected sites were "wholly unacceptable", the council said.

SEAS Response to LionLink Supplementary Non-Statutory Consultation

SEAS Response to LionLink Supplementary Non-Statutory Consultation

Nov 2, 2023

SEAS Response to LionLink Supplementary Non-Statutory Consultation

SEALINK Statutory Consultation is live 24 Oct – 18 Dec 2023

SEALINK Statutory Consultation is live 24 Oct – 18 Dec 2023

Oct 24, 2023

SEALINK is an HVDC subsea transmission cable which takes EXCESS power from Friston to Kent. This is the FINAL stage of the process before a DCO (Development Consent Order) application in 2024 so do get involved.

The Times on LionLink consultation, ‘Celebrities join campaign against green energy cable at Suffolk village’

The Times on LionLink consultation, ‘Celebrities join campaign against green energy cable at Suffolk village’

Oct 6, 2023

"Wind farm interconnector would help to power 1.8m homes, but Walberswick locals say it would be disastrous for the landscape, wildlife and tourism".

Fantastic turnout to LionLink consultations

Fantastic turnout to LionLink consultations

Sep 27, 2023

Recent consultation events in Reydon/Southwold and Walberswick saw over 700 locals showed up to oppose LionLink’s ridiculous plans.

Article in The Sun – Walberswick being destroyed

Article in The Sun – Walberswick being destroyed

Sep 25, 2023

LOCALS in the seaside village of Walberswick which is home to a number of celebs say it’s being destroyed by huge trenches which are as wide as a motorway.

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