Letter to the Western Daily Press 9th October
It is time to expose the Great British Nuclear Fantasy once and for all
New Nuclear – Unaffordable, Undesirable and Unachievable by Andrew Blowers and Stephen Thomas In 2022 Boris Johnson set a target of 24GW (eight more Hinkley Point Cs) of new nuclear capacity to be running by 2050. To achieve this, he announced the creation of Great British Nuclear with a mission …
Why an Acoustic Fish Deterrent is necessary at Hinkley Point C
Please support us in our campaign to call EDF to account. They must not evade their responsibility to protect the marine life of the Severn estuary. This exploitation must be stopped before it is too late. As Hinkley Point C (HPC) nuclear power plant is being built in Somerset by …
‘Odd’ Hinkley Point C salt marsh plan has Somerset locals up in arms
Anger at EDF proposals to flood wildlife-rich farmland as ‘compensation’ for killing millions of fish at nuclear site. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/02/odd-hinkley-point-c-salt-marsh-plan-has-somerset-locals-up-in-arms Scores of people, under the watchful eye of a police community support officer, turned up for a meeting at Pawlett village hall this week as part of EDF’s consultation on the …
Nuclear Fishing [Old Sparky, Private Eye]
That EDF has completely lost control of the costs and timetable of its new nuke at Hinkley Point on the Somerset coast, is now clear to all. So the French firm is looking to cut every corner it can find – and billions of fish may be in the firing …
Hinkley Point C cost ballooning amid further delays
The Stop Hinkley Campaign has reacted to the news that the cost of Hinkley Point C has ballooned to £46bn and that the first reactor may not now be open until 2031. Stop Hinkley Spokesperson Roy Pumfrey said: “The Government will have known for days if not weeks that this …
Hinkley Point C have announced their consultation process on their second attempt to remove fish protection measures.
They are again trying to vary the condition in the DCO and remove the AFDs from the HPC cooling water intake system. They are once more tying up Environment Agency (EA) resources with a new consultation, to go over exactly the same ground that has already been covered in the …
Nuclear Roadmap is Pure Fantasy
The Stop Hinkley Campaign has described the Government’s so-called Nuclear Roadmap as “pure fantasy”. The Roadmap majors on plans to explore the possibility of building another large-scale power plant as big as Hinkley Point C. Anglesey and Cumbria are suggested as possible sites. But these sites were designated twelve and …