Representation by Peter Lux
- Date submitted
- 30 September 2020
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
Systemic Risk EDF have failed to address systemic risk in any of the documents. While systemic risk for the UK as a whole is being addressed by the IPC they are only looking at such risks that exists between different projects. It is expected that the systemic risk to individual projects are covered by the project proposal themselves. Although EDF have taken into account possible sea level increase of 3.2m they have not examined the systemic risk that is associated with such sea level rise. Large parts of the UK infrastructure would be affected along with worldwide food growing capacity. In the words of Professor Peter Stott (Met Office Hadley Centre) “Humanity just won’t be able to cope with the world we are heading for.” “Often, too, we have not fully assessed the indirect or systemic risks, such as those affecting international security – even though, as the UK’s first national climate change risk assessment found, these could be far greater than the direct risks like coastal flooding. Assessing the threat of climate change today demands a more coordinated, more sophisticated, more holistic approach.” (Rt Hon. Baroness Anelay of St Johns Minister of State, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office) Fresh Water Supply Despite being brought up after the first consultation EDF have failed to fully address the issue of fresh water supply. Although various proposals have been put forward (document of Water Framework Directive) none of them have been sufficiently explored and developed to an extent to comply with the obligations necessary for the DCO to be approved. The recent local Water Resource Management Plan states: “The Essex and Suffolk supply areas are located within some of the driest areas of the country and as such face particular challenges including growing demand, uncertainty from climate change and a general lack of new intrinsic water resources”