ABSTRACT

This chapter outlines the legislative history of the national grid, as it came to assume those iconic expressions of modernity, the 2,000 MW power station and 275 kV super grid, commencing with the nationalisation of the industry following the Second World War. Illustration is drawn from the Uskmouth power station as to the physical impacts upon the rural environment. An outline is provided of the statutory means by which they were generally allayed, if not altogether accommodated.