Sizewell C – Wrong Project, Wrong Time, Wrong Place.
Stop Sizewell C has been campaigning on the Suffolk-based twin EPR nuclear reactor project since 2013; first as Theberton and Eastbridge Action Group on Sizewell and, since 2019, as Stop Sizewell C. While our initial concern about Sizewell C focused on the impacts of such a large infrastructure project in a singularly unsuited area, we have since 2019 maintained that Sizewell C is the wrong project, at the wrong time, in the wrong place.
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- Wrong project. In addition to its eye-watering cost – which means its electricity will also be expensive – the EPR reactor has a woeful delivery and operational track record, making it an unreliable energy “solution”. We fully oppose the financing structure of Sizewell C, with a tax – and risk – imposed on households during construction.
- Wrong time. Nuclear gigawatt projects take well over a decade to construct, even without the likely delays with building the EPR, so Sizewell C will not be operational in time to contribute to meaningful target dates to reduce carbon emissions and be a solution to our climate emergency.
- Wrong place. Ironically, coastal nuclear power is vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, and this is a particular concern at Sizewell. Additionally the Sizewell C site is surrounded by protected wildlife habitats and adjoins internationally famous Minsmere and is wholly within the Suffolk Coast & Heaths National Landscape and was opposed by the RSPB and Suffolk Wildlife Trust. Sustainable supplies of drinking-quality water are uncertain and meant the Planning Inspectorate was unable to recommend Sizewell C be granted Planning Consent.
Stop Sizewell C has published a report “Sizewell C, the Unanswered Questions” which draws together what is known, what it is impossible to know, and what the government continues to keep secret about Sizewell C.
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#StopSizewellC said 'there have already been an “awful lot of changes” despite #SizewellC’s pledge to apply lessons from #HinkleyPointC... “We have always said you can replicate the above-ground design but you cannot replicate the site and location”
"[Cakes & Ale say] they want to keep their residents, but I don't know whether they do. It's devastated us because we thought we'd have that home for another 20yrs and this need not have happened. But it's just about money, isn't it?"
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Do you know and love Cakes & Ale holiday park? Some of you have contacted us, concerned it will be turned into a #SizewellC worker site. You can object to a current planning application below by emailing planning@eastsuffolk.gov.uk by 26 Aug
https://publicaccess.eastsuffolk.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=TCPXZ6QXHW400
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Surprise surprise, said nobody. #SmallModularReactor #SMR stocks collapse "amid growing concerns over the lack of immediate revenue and the long build-out timelines for the [#nuclear] technology."
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The change of contractor was likely to delay completion of the roads by between six months and one year, the person added.
Local residents said the delay would extend disruption in villages already experiencing increased construction traffic. “The link road and bypass were mitigation to reduce the significant impacts of a decade of HGVs and worker buses travelling through multiple small villages,” said Alison Downes of campaign group #StopSizewellC. She said there had already been an “awful lot of changes” at the project despite Sizewell C’s pledge to apply lessons from #HinkleyPointC, which uses the same EPR reactor technology. “We have always said you can replicate the above-ground design but you cannot replicate the site and location”
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Planning application is here: https://publicaccess.eastsuffolk.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=TCPXZ6QXHW400 "Full planning application for the reconfiguration of the holiday park to accommodate the siting of 108 new holiday lodges and works to existing visitor and operational service facilities, together with associated infrastructure works including improvements to access and circulation routes, parking, landscaping, drainage, plant and utilities as well as other site infrastructure. Temporary (time limited) consent, part retrospective, sought for workers accommodation within the existing and new holiday accommodation." Closing date for comments 26 August.
Here's a BBC piece from earlier this year about how many people have been driven away from the park after the current influx of workers...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx249jw23jpo
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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1IKSCKJR4vxcNqlVqvFAOv_Pz74_s1iRutF2WI75KcIQ/viewform
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