Anger at EDF proposals to flood wildlife-rich farmland as ‘compensation’ for killing millions of fish at nuclear site.
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 proposal.
Robin Edwards, whose family have farmed in the area for 80 years, said he would have to move his 150 cattle from the fields. “I’m a tenant there so I won’t get any compensation,” he said. “It will mean keeping my cows inside more, which I don’t like to do. It’s not good.”
Jo Smoldon of the campaign group Stop Hinkley said she was shocked the fish were being sacrificed. “It’s probably all about cost,” she said.