Representation by Mrs Joyce H Annandale
- Date submitted
- 27 September 2020
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
Sizewell C does not address the near to medium term urgency in reducing carbon emissions and diverts taxpayers’ money and government time from dealing much more effectively with carbon reduction. In the time it takes to generate electricity and pay back its embedded energy other technologies will have reduced carbon and be generating at far lower cost. It burdens future generations with massive, still-unquantified clean up costs and will damage Suffolk’s tourism industry with a row of defunct nuclear power stations decaying along a heritage coast. Putting Chinese technology into vital infrastructure is unacceptable and being drawn in to taking a financial stake will mean that the government will be compelled endlessly to throw good money after bad when EDF inevitably says it’s late and over budget. So the monetary cost and delay will represent two decades’ crucial loss in actual carbon reduction. A nuclear incident would destroy not only Suffolk’s tourism but a major part of its economy.