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 announcement was coming – we certainly heard rumours. You would have thought it would have provoked them into at least re-examining their nuclear roadmap. Instead, on Monday they decided to waste another £1.3bn of taxpayers’ money on a carbon copy of Hinkley Point C on the Suffolk Coast. Any sensible Government would be urgently looking at the overwhelming case to
provide our power from 100% renewables.”
“And it’s not just HPC’s costs that are ballooning, the whole project is swirling around
making a horrid noise like a punctured balloon. And trying to cram 15,000 workers toe to toe on the site to play catch up will mean H&S rules go out the window.”