Representation by Richard Croome
- Date submitted
- 30 September 2020
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
Key objections to this proposal: Safety-Climate change is accelerating. Evidence globally suggests substantial sea level rise is imminent. There also appears to be little real progress on curbing greenhouse gases and therefore mitigating climate change. Both Eustatic and Isostatic adjustment will impact the Suffolk coast. Increased frequency of storms and surge tides will exacerbate the problem. Nuclear Power plants at Sizewell will present planners with impossible challengers. The proximity of radioactivity close to an encroaching North Sea will present an unacceptable risk and harm to our precious marine environment and local human population. If you had asked the Japanese about safety at Fukushima before the disaster there would have been undoubted guarantees around the risks and the impossibility of anything going wrong. However the unforeseen became a reality and that is essentially the danger at Sizewell. We are not compelled to accept this development. Why on earth are we passing on this risk to our children and their children? Furthermore should we not be looking to the North Sea to locate more wind farms in an effort to boost our carbon free electricity production. Environment- Suffolk is a county of great beauty and heritage.Do we really need another Nuclear power station at Sizewell? Does this add to that heritage and sense of peace and tranquillity? Most environmental organisations are opposed to this development. Do I need to list them? Essentially saying yes to this development says something about just how spineless we are in our defence of our precious county and indeed how in a similar vain we have been in defending the counties environment in the past. For too long Suffolk people have been treated as though they really don't have an opinion or just agree with the tired concept that jobs matter more than anything else and that the economy comes first and such developments are good for communities. Essentially this is a fallacy and fails to examine alternative approaches to development. Our county is precious. As population increases the pressures on the environment become ever greater. A secondary consideration is the vast increase in carbon emissions during construction and the social pressures created by in migration.