A public inquiry has been launched into proposals for a north-south electricity interconnector.

Stormont Environment Minister Edwin Poots ordered the Planning Appeals Commission to investigate NIE and Eirgrid's plans for a substation at Trewmount Road in Moy.

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The scheme includes a single overhead line would run over land in Tyrone and Armagh.

Opposition to the project has been strong on both sides of the border with calls to consider public health implications and alternative technologies.

The Minister said: "I have given the application careful consideration. I am of the opinion that the best way forward is to deal with the application through the public local inquiry process."

Public hearings have already been held in the Irish Republic, in Co Monaghan.

(GK/BMcc)