Fionnáin quoted How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra
A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, …
One of the reasons why I appreciate the Dinorwig Power Station so much is because of the decisions made to minimize harms, like rehoming the local fish or burying the transmission lines so as not to spoil the view. What this reveals is that the beneficiaries of Electric Mountain and the community that would be negatively affected were considered to be largely the same people: the British public, plugging their kettles in and spending [->] bank holiday weekends at Snowdonia National Park. This overlap provides an incentive to mitigate the negative effects of the project...
— How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra (Page 132 - 133)
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Chachra repeatedly uses "Electric Mountain" as an example of considered design. It is very like Turlough Hill in Ireland, which I once lived near and visited regularly: A renewable reservoir built in the 1960s inside a mountain, but carefully considered to ensure minimal impact to wildlife, landscape and people.