Representation by Alice wilkinson-feller
- Date submitted
- 29 September 2020
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
My main concerns about the building of a third nuclear power plan on the sizewell site is mainly down to its environmental impact. it has been said that the plant will take over a decade to build, this is a decades worth of environmental damage that does not need to take place. being so close to the minsmere site the amount of wildlife that will be disrupted and habitats destroyed and polluted is simply unacceptable. The damage to the minsmere site and it's wildlife would be irreparable. The government has proposed to make the UK 'carbon neutral by 2050' yet the building of yet another nuclear power plan surely shows that this is not the way to go. there are so many other green alternative like wind and solar even wave energy that are yet to be used to their full potential and are likely to outlive the date that sizewell C would be in action for. By the time it is built it is likely to be obsolete, it would be an arduous decade of construction for a short term 'fix' to the energy crisis that would come at great cost to our already struggling environment. Another objection is the social impact of the site, as there is proposed park and ride car park in Darsham village and Wickham Market with no thought noted for the impact this will have to the villagers and local communities. EDF's own surveys have shown that a significant percentage of visitors to the local areas (the A12 is the old route that can be taken to get to many of Suffolk's best beaches) would be deterred from visiting during the ten year construction period. Therefore this would bring a huge loss to the local economy with the 'Suffolk Coast Destination Management Organisation' finding that tourism could lose up to £40 million a year, with the potential loss of up to 400 jobs. therefore showing minimal consideration to the impact to the local businesses that are not directly involved in the nuclear supply chain. Fore these reasons and many more including unacceptable increase in noise levels due to increased road traffic, the severing of local communities, impacts on marine ecology and the fact that there is simply no sustainable solution for the long-term safe disposal of nuclear waste (Spent fuel would stay on this eroding coastal site until at least 2140) that i believe sizewell C is not the right energy solution, and these point must be addressed.