Protest by 3 middle aged women costs nuclear firm €1million

Anti-nuclear demo ‘cost firm €1million’ http://www.bridgwatermercury.co.uk/news/13610163.Anti_nuclear_demo____cost_firm____1million___/?ref=twtrec AN anti-nuclear protest by three women that blocked the main road into Hinkley B power station cost EDF approximately one million euros, it it was claimed at Taunton Magistrates Court on Friday.

Ornella Saibene, 55, Marian Connelly, 61, and Caroline Hope, 73, effectively prevented all access to the power plant on April 1 this year when they chained themselves together and lay across the road, preventing workers from accessing the site.

The protest started just after 7am and caused a three-mile build up of traffic until they agreed to move at 90.30 a.m.

The women timed their action to coincide with a shift changeover preventing up to 2,500 people getting to work.

The women – all from Bristol – were each fined £200 and ordered to pay £105 costs after pleading guilty to obstructing the route. Joanne Pearce, prosecuting, said: “The closure cost one million euros. Their disregard to safety and the security of a nuclear power station cannot be tolerated.”

Connelly, Saibene and Hope argued they were exercising their democratic right to civil disobedience and had not committed a criminal offence.

Saibene, a care worker, told the court: “Hinkley is dangerous and should have been shut down in 2006. It has moved safety margins from zero to ‘calculable’ and nuclear power causes irreversible human and environmental damage for centuries. Hope said they had considered their actions very carefully and added: “I have never broken the law but I felt impelled to do so.”

She read out a statement from Green West Euro MP Molly Scott Cato comparing nuclear power stations to “ageing dinosaurs.”

PCAH says…1:04pm Wed 19 Aug 15

It is EDF’s inherent disregard for safety which triggers anti nuclear demonstrations. Hinkley B should be shut down and the lifetime extension revoked due to imminent risks of core meltdown from age related structural degradation. The graphite bricks are so cracked and misaligned that EDF are using articulated control rods; boiler tube welds are faulty and fuel pins are not functioning properly. The costs to Somerset residents have been mounting over the past 50 years; when are the regulators going to do anything about it?

August 24, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | opposition to nuclear, UK

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NUCLEARISM=FASCISM , this is the issue to reform the UN , charging the IAEA with crimes against Humanity , The UN members are accountable for this body being coopted trade enforcement policies that enslave people ,forcing legally binding liabilities onto public funds . The IAEA is nothing more than a agent for Nuclear proliferation , arranging nuclear contracts , binding public liabilities , and can not stop a simple melt down . The worlds population are ingesting their isotopes , horrific environmental cost to public waterways and health . They must be stopped at the UN , along with protecting public funds from lawsuits as
Germany experience when their citizens opposed nuclear , we are tierd of vunerable people having to protest while it is clear of the oppressive action of member states towards the population and environment go unpunished

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