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Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’ (www.theguardian.com)
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Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach

Update: further information by @BigDiction@lemmy.world in the comments below

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[–] 58 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This is actually a win. The original site was going through an ecological sensitive area. People fought to protect the "grave" of a fictional character but accidentally protected a delicate ecology. That is more important than protecting the dead, real or not.

Fans of the wizard series come to leave stones reading “Here Lies Dobby” despite being asked not to by the land owner, the National Trust, because the beach is an ecologically sensitive site.

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  • [–] 54 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Gotta love that a fictional character created by a transphobe carries more weight and concern than the further destruction of our biosphere.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago*

    People are leaving rocks at the site of the "grave", which they've repeatedly been told not to do, specifically because of concerns about harm to the environment. So they might have accidentally helped in some respect, but it doesn't exactly mean much when they're showing up themselves, and fucking it up anyway

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    The HP obsessive are also littering that sensitive sight with a bunch of socks.

    Also the cable was for sharing load between grids to account for variability in power generation in renewables. It was literally being built to support further decarbonization of the grid.

    Oh and now the cable might have to go through a Bronze Age burial site.

    Like, this is not a win, this is idiots making a good project more expensive and difficult and potentially causing the destruction of an archeological site.

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