This page comprises of:-

1. ★ Points you might want to raise with your MP
   

2. ★ A sample letter
   

3. ★ Relevent email addresses

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If you want to write a quick simple email then click on this link to send one to Tess Munt MP to raise your objection by clicking HERE.

Short concise emails are great as they are simply counted and used as a mandate by our MP's on certain topics, so click above and email away.

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If you want to write a longer more formal letter then below is some pointers.

NB: It is important that you send a letter in your own words for it to have maximum effect.

Your letter to your MP might sensibly raise some or all of the following points:-

1. ★ A call for your MP to support the use of electricity transmission systems that do not despoil the landscape whether it be designated to be of special value or not
   

2. ★ Support your MP's (Tessa Munt MP) Private Members Bill to update the 1989 Electricity Act by voting for it - it will help pave the way for underground electricity transmission (adjust this according to your area).
   

3. ★ A call for your MP to press for the revision of the Energy National Policy Statements such that they advocate the use of environmentally preferable electricity transmission methods.
   

4. ★A call to use whole life costs of transmission systems when considering the economics of transmission technologies.
   

5. ★ A call for the fiscal value of the detriment to the environment caused by pylons to inform decisions to use them.
   

6. ★ A call for your MP to press for an end to sham public consultation processes and for legislation to be enacted to force real consultation with the public that truly impacts final infrastructure planning decisions.
   

7. ★ A call for your MP to ensure that the economics of electricity transmission is looked at from a broad economic perspective that includes impacts to other industries and not just from the narrow point of view of the electricity industry.

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   ★ A call for MP to press for the Hinckley to Seabank Connection to be put underground or under the sea.
   

Sample Letter to a local MP (Please don’t just copy it - use your own words for greatest effect).

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Dear Tessa Munt MP (adjust for your local MP).

Electricity Transmission Systems for the Future:

I was pleased and heartened to read/hear of your support for the campaign within your constituency to free our beautiful rural landscape from the threat of yet more electricity pylons.

I am appalled at the prospect of a new wave of electricity pylons being built across our countryside, blighting it for generations. I wholeheartedly support your proposed Bill and the move to renewably generated electricity and know that environmentally preferable technology exists that can affordably connect these generators to the grid. These contemporary, yet proven, technologies do not despoil the landscape in the way pylons do.

Pylons, i believe, damage rural communities from building part of the local economy on our area's natural beauty. I understand that within our county, large amounts of income is generated annually by tourism in our area and that this part of our economy should not be compromised in any way by fast and 'dirty' solutions to energy industry problems. The natural beauty of the landscape is in any case an important contributor to our sense of wellbeing and quality of life.

I applaud your Private Members Bill that is seeking to update the Electricity Act 1989.

I would request that you press the Secretary of State, Chris Huhne, to ensure that National Energy Policy and the energy regulatory regime are revised to deliver an energy system that embraces renewable energy without blighting the landscape, one that looks at whole life costs for energy infrastructure and not simply upfront capital costs.

As you will realise, the up front costs can easily be funded through long term utility bonds of the form recently brought forward by National Grid, a financial instrument that the City's institutions would welcome, these financial products being seen to help bring stability to the markets.

Yours sincerely,

etc.

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Email Addresses for relevant MP's:

1. Tessa Munt MP for Wells (author of the Private Members Bill) Email: tessa.munt.mp@parliament.uk

2. Secretary of State and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), Chris Huhne MP, Email: chris@chrishuhne.org.uk or chris.huhne@decc.gsi.gov.uk

3. Minister of State for Energy, Charles Hendry MP, Email: hendryc@parliament.uk

4. Cllr John Denbee, Sedgemoor District Councillor Axbridge district: john.denbee@sedgemoor.gov.uk                   

Any letter to an MP can be sent by conventional post to them at: The House of Commons, London, SW1A OAA