James Fisher reports on the claims and counter-claims flying between HS2 and conservationists.
A row has flared up between The Wildlife Trusts (WT) and HS2, after the charity claimed that the infrastructure project ‘undervalued Nature and overvalued its compensation measures’. WT claims that there are ‘fundamental flaws’ in the way HS2 Ltd has assessed the value of Nature along the path of the railway project.
In response to the claim, HS2 Ltd wrote on Twitter…