Representation by Liz Jones
- Date submitted
- 25 September 2020
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
The building of the site will cause enormous environmental and aesthetic damage to an area of outstanding natural beauty. This will impact on the wildlife, local biodiversity, including endangered species and the consequent knock on effects to biodiversity of other areas and the local people through the building, transport links, heavy traffic, loss of tourism and the job losses through the decline in tourism. The position is unsuitable for a plant of this type considering the risks of flooding and a possible nuclear disaster through the contamination of water caused by damage to the site through floods (cracked pipes, erosion etc) and rising of the water table. At a time when we are trying to reduce our carbon footprint and the consequent damage to the environment such a huge carbon-greedy project is clearly wrong. The environmental damage it causes is not wholly offset by the production of oil-free energy especially as it will likely cause an increase in building of houses with yet more environmental detriment.