Marine and conservation groups based around the Bristol Channel, along with the Environment Agency are still awaiting a decision from the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, George Eustice, on the public inquiry which considered EDF’s application to renege on its commitment to install Acoustic Fish Deterrents …
George Eustice MP must reject EDF’s plans for a Severn Estuary Fish Killing Machine.
The Stop Hinkley campaign is calling on the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, George Eustice MP, to reject EDF’s Appeal against the Environment Agency’s Deemed Refusal to allow a permit variation relating to the installation of an Acoustic Fish Deterrent at Hinkley Point C. EDF is …
EDF’s Proposed dredge and dumping of mud from Hinkley C Site into Cardiff Bay and Portishead.
Campaigners from the Stop Hinkley campaign will be meeting on 29th June at Portishead near Bristol to take mud samples from the Bristol channel for analysis by the CRIRRAD Laboratory in France to provide a base line before any possible dumping of mud from the Hinkley Point C construction site …
Sizewell Planning Inspectorate to Visit Hinkley Point C
The Planning Inspectorate which is examining EDF’s proposal to build two further EPR reactors at Sizewell C in Suffolk will be visiting the Hinkley Point C site in Somerset on Tuesday 22nd June, along with some of those objecting to the proposal. Stop Hinkley campaigners will be at the ‘elephant’ …
Radioactive leak in China
The Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong province, China has two operational EPR reactors – the same type as being built at Hinkley Point C. The first entered commercial service in December 2018 and the second in September 2019. Delays at other EPR construction sites at Olkiluoto in Finland, Flamanville …
Hinkley Point C: Silo Collapse Report Raises More Questions
EDF Energy has published its report on the Ground Granulated Blast-furnace Slag (GGBS) silo collapse which took place on the Hinkley Point C construction site on 10th June last year.
Portishead dumping ground is possible new destination for EDF’s Hinkley Point ‘radioactive mud’
NFLA joint media release with Stop Hinkley and the Geiger Bay campaign. The UK & Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA), the ‘Stop Hinkley’ campaign and the ‘Geiger Bay’ campaign have been involved in raising concerns over the dumping of large amounts of dredged materials from the EDF site at …
EDF’s Hinkley C Nuclear Power Station will be wiping out fish stocks in Severn Estuary for 60 years
The Stop Hinkley Campaign is accusing EDFGenco, the French and Chinese owned Company building Hinkley Point C, of trying to bully the UK Environment Agency into allowing them to destroy environmentally precious fish stocks for the 60 year lifetime of the nuclear power station.