00:00 for this area in any way, shape or form.
00:03 And I do...
00:04 What will you be able to tell the government after today's meeting?
00:08 We heard loud and clear from this meeting that
00:12 pylons are not the right choice for this important project
00:16 and there are other ways of doing it.
00:18 I don't think there was a single person here in this room today
00:21 or in the other public meetings that I've held
00:23 that thinks that we should be pursuing this project
00:25 and that's what I'll be saying loud and clear to the government
00:28 in the coming days and weeks.
00:29 Roy Sanderson from Croft.
00:33 I've lived there all my life.
00:35 That's about 83 years.
00:37 And I've come here today to see what all these pylons are about.
00:41 We've had a wonderful meeting here with Matt Warman.
00:45 Lots of people all objecting to pylons
00:48 because we don't want our beautiful countryside spoiled by pylons
00:53 when there's an alternative.
00:55 The alternative would be to go from Grimsby
00:59 down the North Sea
01:01 and link up with the other people who are doing the outer dowsing
01:05 and take the cable through to Wapload.
01:08 And this would satisfy everyone.
01:11 We need the power.
01:13 I'll support wind turbines in the North Sea
01:16 and I hope that the government have enough common sense
01:20 to ensure that it's done in a correct way.
01:24 I'm Nicola Hughes.
01:26 I'm very pleased to be part of this group.
01:28 No pylons, sinking ship.
01:30 We are standing against the national grid,
01:36 the proposal to bring pylons 50 metres high
01:41 right across our grade A agricultural land, arable land.
01:47 And it's sacrilege.
01:49 We have farmers in tears.
01:51 It's not good enough.
01:53 We're not having it.
01:54 We've managed in five weeks to unify over 3,000 people
02:00 into the Facebook group and we are standing together.
02:04 We're standing together, sharing what we know
02:07 and making a support network for those who need us.
02:10 We've had to fill this form in which is really, really long-winded.
02:15 It's the most repetitive form that you could ever be asked to fill in
02:20 and there are people who wish to oppose
02:23 who don't feel confident to fill in 12 pages
02:29 and so the actual nature of the form is very, very difficult as well.
02:34 But we're doing our best to support people in this time of worry, fear, everything.
02:40 The whole lane is absolutely packed with cars, isn't it?
02:44 It is, trying to find somewhere to park.
02:46 It's probably the busiest it's been in a long time.
02:50 Does that give you hope that your voices will be loud enough
02:56 to make the government hear that you do not want this proposal?
03:00 100%.
03:02 The support, word of mouth, is stronger than the sword on this.
03:06 So we are working together.
03:08 We are speaking our words.
03:09 We are writing our words on Facebook.
03:12 Our voices are being heard.
03:14 We are heads together.
03:16 We've got a small committee.
03:18 We're learning from each other.
03:19 We had our first committee meeting last weekend
03:22 and we are responding to the needs of those people
03:26 who are around us and need our help.
03:28 We've still got a few more days, haven't we?
03:30 Not very long, until the 13th of March.
03:33 It isn't really very long at all.
03:34 So the message is, you know, give up that one hour, is it,
03:38 and fill that form in.
03:39 It's actually, think about both yourselves and your descendants
03:45 because this is a big undertaking and the fear, the imposition,
03:51 it's a big imposition by National Grid,
03:54 wanting to impose the pylons right across Lincolnshire
03:59 when they could take them in a subsea route
04:02 all the way around the sea.
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