The plan by the Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO/ADMIE) to run an overhead power line from Chania to Damasta in Heraklion, erecting a total of 269 pylons across sensitive countryside, caused a storm of protest when it was first announced a year ago. Since then the Municipality of Apokoronas has led a movement against the plan, among other things commissioning research from the National Technical University of Crete (NTUA) to study the effects of the project in detail across the three Regional Units of Chania, Rethymnon and Heraklion. The initial findings of this study have now been published and an article by Haniotika Nea’s managing director Paraskevas Perakis, appearing both in the paper’s print edition and on its website, presents the details of the findings, as follows.