Pylon campaigners have accused energy firm National Grid of "arrogance" for continuing with plans to route 50-metre high pylons across 110 miles of the Suffolk and Essex countryside.
A second public consultation is set to be held this summer into the so-called East Anglia GREEN project, which will involve routing cables carrying electricity from wind farms off the East Anglian coast through Suffolk and into Essex, passed Dedham and Langham.
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But campaigners from Essex Suffolk Norfolk pylons have spoken of their "astonishment" that the consultation was still going ahead despite widespread opposition to the pylon plans from "MPs, councils and 23,000 people".
These opponents have called for an offshore grid to be created instead which would take the wind farm power to where it was needed, rather then through rural areas.
In March, the EADT reported a Government U-turn on an initial decision to refuse a review, to be conducted by National Grid's Electricity System Operator (ESO), which would consider these offshore routes as a possible alternative.
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However, the review will not be held until after the consultation, a situation regarded by the campaigners as a "whitewash".
Rosie Pearson, spokesperson for Essex Suffolk Norfolk pylons, said: "The arrogance of National Grid is frankly astonishing.
"The regions' MPs, councils and 23,000 people have all called for an offshore grid.
"In the face of this united opposition to its East Anglian pylons proposal and united support for an offshore grid it beggars belief that they have come back with the same proposal merely tweaked.
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"They say they are listening to us but we say they don’t want to hear us."
She said the decision to hold the consultation over the summer meant that many people would be away on holiday, while farmers would be busy with the harvest.
National Grid has been approached for comment.
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