Representation by Rod Annandale
- Date submitted
- 29 September 2020
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
Sizewell C is being built because of asserted benefits and inevitably there will be disbenefits - some short to medium term and some measured in decades and maybe centuries. A main benefit is supposed to help slow climate change. This may have been true 20 to 30 years ago, but has been overtaken by events. Sizewell C will not contribute to net carbon reduction until at least 2040, at the expense of at least a decade's major dislocation of Suffolk's people and wildlife, much of which dislocation may endure. What will certainly endure for at least 7 or 8 decades is the significant economic burden of the project, as the strike price will look alarmingly high in 20 years time. The taxpayer and businesses and consumers will pay for this as the Government entangles itself in a French vanity project. All the disbenefits have been obscured by EdF at each stage of the planning process. They have reneged on their environmental mitigations one by one, and at Hinkley Point they have disregarded many of those finally agreed, with no enforcement or sanction from Government, who are thus effectively conspiring to subvert the planning permission by their inaction. The site is too cramped for two reactors, and Sizewell A will not be cleared away for a century. We don't need to suffer the disbenefits and risks from this project for the illusory benefits.