Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s commitment to give households close to new power lines up to £10,000 off their electricity bills has been branded a “half-baked attempt to buy people off” by campaigners in Scotland.
Dan Bailey, who is campaigning against the proposed route for a new line of pylons in the Highlands, said the proposal was “utterly inappropriate” when compared to the “serious harm to the local environment, quality of life, and the visitor economy of the Highlands” that he claimed could result from the project.
