Woodspring MP, Dr Liam Fox, said:
""A backroom agreement is not acceptable when there is such public anxiety about this entire project. We must have a full tranparent and complete consultation so that all the alternatives can be properly weighed up.""
Pleae see below Dr Fox's letter to the Chief Executive of the IPC.
26 February, 2010
Dear Mr Saunders,
Hinkley Point Electricity Transmission
I understand from press reports that the IPC is unhappy about the National Grid Consultation relating to the proposed electricity pylons affecting my constituency in North Somerset and others in surrounding areas.
I further understand that there has been a proposal for a meeting between interested parties such as the local authorities. While I hope this would include the relevant Members of Parliament, I wish to register strongly my view that this would be no substitute for a further full and proper consultation which would allow all my constituents to make their views known, based on more complete and explicit information about the real alternatives.
Yours sincerely
LIAM FOX