Representation by Caroline Weatherby
- Date submitted
- 29 September 2020
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
I wish to raise the following issues of concern about Sizewell C: 1. I believe it is the wrong time and the wrong place for such a project 2. It will irrepairably disrupt the area of SSI wildlife sites and AONB around it 3. It will adversly affect the coastal processes 4. Hard coastal defences and climate change will turn it into an island. 5. There are no long term plans for nuclear waste, plus what this project will create over 60 years. Community, jobs, social impacts 1. Most of the workforce will be brought in, local jobs mostly for lower paid work only. 2. Employment insulating buildings and fitting heat pumps, solar panels etc would be a better way of providing employment and reduce the CO2 emissions as efficiently. 3. Tourism will lose out, potentially £40m a year. Pressure of traffic will hit residents, visitors and local businesses. 4. Business brought in from workers on the site is not likely to replace this. Transport 1. Road based transport is a huge problem: The new roads will take 2 years to complete, will sever communities, and also damage the rural footpath system and divide farmland. Making life for locals hell. 2. The alternative "relief road" has not been properly thought through, and will be permenant. 3. the HGV numbers are as high as those rejected by all satutory consultees at consultations. Environment 1.Distruction of Coronation Wood, dividing the ANOB in half, cannot be compensated for by Aldhust Farm because the continuity of the wildlife area is disrupted. 2. Dust management for the spoil heaps and stockpiles is inadequate. 3. Irreparable harm to RSPB Minsmere, a bird sanctuary of international importance, from light, noise and dust pollution. 4. Impact of borrow pits and landfill proposed, not fully addressed. 5.Uncertainty re drainage and supply of 3 million litres of water during construction and beyond. 6.Abstraction of water compounds risks to the environment and protected species. 7. Risks to groundwater levels and surrounding habitats and ecology. 8. Unclear effect on Minsmere sluice. 9. Catastrophic impact on landscape character because of the locality, design and scale of the construction, severing the AONB. 10. Impossible to compensate for landscape and ecological damage . 11. No free energy till 2038 - 40, when CO2 emissions from the construction will be offset. Marine and Coastal 1. No complete design of HCDF available 2. Rates of coastal erosion and recession is unpredictable 3. Impacts on coastel processes of Beach Landing facility 4. Impacts on marine life. Finally 1. I wish to endorse the Relevant Representation submitted by Stop Sizewell C, tasc, the RSPB, SuffolkWildlife Trust and Friends of the Earth. 2. I wish to state that I consider the Sizewell C application to be totally unsuitable for a digital examination process