Please join the fight to save Minster Marshes from National Grid's plans to create environmentally damaging infrastructure through a sensitive saltmarsh and the nationally important Minster Marshes.

National Grid proposes to build a gigantic electricity converter station 26 metres high and covering 60,000 square metres (9 hectares or 22 football pitches) on Minster Marshes next to an internationally designated SSSI. The cable will come onshore through the iconic Pegwell Bay Nature Reserve, famous for its incredible assemblage of migratory birds.

Minster Marshes is an offshore safe haven and connected to the coast for wading and migrating birds and many other protected species, including the recently introduced European beaver and the critically endangered, Red-listed protected European eel, which depend on the river and environment that the marshes provide - which are becoming increasingly scarce.

Thanet is the most heavily populated district in east Kent, and the final frontier for many rare and endangered species. Thanet’s wildlife cannot afford to lose this valuable protected resource and sanctuary for the migratory birds that depend so heavily on it and are being put at unnecessary and avoidable risk due to the likelihood of collisions with proposed electricity cables. Any decision to site this converter station and its damaging infrastructure next to such a sensitive and important ecological receptor is reckless.

Yes, we want green energy. However, it’s a paradox: there are better and less damaging locations available for this kind of infrastructure. Trashing an internationally important area for wildlife in the name of green energy is not green and not sustainable.

This huge infrastructure project will alter the nature of this tranquil space forever and rob wildlife of yet more habitat - and all during the worst biodiversity crisis in history.

If you wish to help us to fight this damaging proposal at Minster Marshes, please donate to help us to protect this special place. Funds raised will go towards any potential Legal Challenge.

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Every donation will help, thank you in advance for your support.