Fears grow over HS2's potential impact on biodiversity
by Patrick Barkham from on (#4YSP9)
It has been promised that any wild space destroyed during HS2's creation will be replaced. But green opposition is hardening
When Labour announced HS2 in 2010, the 153-page launch document contained one mention of wildlife. Only "a few" protected wildlife sites would be affected, it said. There would be a line of concrete and steel crossing middle England, but any wild space that was destroyed would be compensated for with new trees, woods and ponds - "no net loss of biodiversity", in eco-speak.
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