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 seeking a variation on the planning conditions imposed when it was granted permission to build the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset. The condition placed on EDF was that Acoustic Fish Deterrents (AFDs) would be installed on the two massive cooling water intake heads 3 kilometres offshore from the nuclear site. EDF is now trying to renege on its commitment.
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