Power line protection zones not such a livewire issue

LSM English26 October 2026, 14:10 UTCLatvia

The expansion of protection zones around power lines with a nominal voltage of 110 kilovolts (kV), which was agreed by the Saeima this month, is a less hot issue than other cases affecting forests, said Jānis Rozītis, Chairman of the Board of the World Wide Fund for Nature and Head of the Forest Programme, in a discussion on the Latvian Radio show "How to Live Better".

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