As the dust settles on decommissioned Hinkley A and the curtain falls for the last time on soon to close Hinkley B, how are things going for the biggest building site in Europe, Hinkley C? The prospect of Hinkley C riding to the rescue of a harassed electricity supply sector …
EDF’s Hinkley C Nuclear Power Station could wipe out 11 billion fish – decimating stocks in Severn Estuary for 60 years.
A condition placed on EDF by the Environment Agency (EA) when it was awarded permission to build Hinkley Point C was that Acoustic Fish Deterrents (AFDs) would be placed on the two massive cooling water intake heads 3 kilometres offshore from the nuclear site. EDF is now trying to renege …
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’ …
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.
Wriggling out of it
The Leveller https://leveller.live When Hinkley C got the go ahead, all sorts of conditions were imposed to provide environmental protection. Among these was what amounts to an underwater loudspeaker. This ‘Acoustic Fish Deterrent’ (AFD) was to be placed in front of the pipes taking water from the sea to cool …
Briefing: 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’s Hinkley Point C nuclear power station, currently under construction in Somerset, is required in its Development Consent Order to meet a number of preconditions including the installation of an Acoustic Fish Deterrent (AFD). Read More: AFD_Briefingv2