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Government accused of ‘bullying’ to get pylons built under Ed Miliband’s net zero drive

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Labour plans to build thousands of new pylons in rural areas to meet clean power targets.

Ed Miliband has vowed to make the energy grid carbon neutral by the end of the decade .

Campaigners have accused the Government of using bullying tactics’ to force new pylon projects through.

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