A lot of people are ragging on the 'cable diverted to avoid Dobby's grave after Harry Potter fans raise a stink' thing and while I also love ragging on Harry Potter fans being weird, in this case it looks like the story was completely made up.
tl;dr: There's no evidence the interview that this was mentioned in even exists, no evidence the route of the cable has ever changed, and the whole story seems to originate from one dude's podcast.
The story also broke into mainstream via the Daily Mail, who are ... rarely if ever honest or accurate.
not to defend such a suspicious story (why would Greenlink listen to these fans? why can no one find evidence of fans' supposed backlash?), but this post actually does nothing to disprove the possibility of Ludlam's anecdote.
in the Energy Revolution podcast interview, Ludlam says the backlash came after an onsite interview with BBC Wales. no offense, but idk how you "search and search" and not find the second result on google if you type in "greenlink bbc wales."
this BBC Wales article that allegedly sparked the backlash is from July 12th 2018, predating everything else in this reddit post. assuming the rumored change was made between mid July and October, all of the materials linked would have been from after the redirect and therefore irrelevant for proving the plans had never changed.
tl;dr: the interview absolutely exists, no evidence of change would be present by comparing documents after the change occurred, and it really does originate from one dude on a podcast.
