Representation by Alex Sainsbury
- Date submitted
- 28 September 2020
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
Sizewell C would likely be an economic disaster. EDf’s current EPR model nuclear power stations are not functional anywhere, not in Finland, France, nor at Hinkley Point. EDF have publicly admitted that Sizewell C would be the last of these failures. The UK’s Climate Change Commission has indicated that great technological progress in renewable sources of energy is about to make nuclear power redundant. Sizewell C will bring only limited economic benefit to Suffolk, and damage its crucial tourist economy. (Leiston’s notorious drug culture developed exponentially during the construction of Sizewell B). Suffolk has already relatively low unemployment. Locals dont want the multi-storey complex housing 2,400 ‘guest’ workers, especially not next to nationally revered Minsmere Bird Reserve, which would be destroyed. Sizewell C brings the threat of flooding and coastal erosion. The Environmental Agency has warned that EDF’s flood compensation proposals ‘may not function as intended’. Finally, there would never be nearly enough road transport infrastructure to support this project.