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Sizewell C nuclear project: community has lost faith in the integrity of EDF

East Anglian Daily Times (not on web) 3rd April 2020, John Rea Price: Community has lost faith in the integrity of EDF.

So EDF has generously agreed to defer their application for planning consent “by a few weeks”, actually for just a month the website of the Planning Inspectorate suggests.

Mr Cadoux Hudson of EDF goes on to promise that more
time would be given for people to register as participants in the public
examination. What he didn’t say is that this will be an extremely formal
and legalistic process with very little opportunity for genuine engagement
by members of the community and is thus a meaningless concession.

He goes on to say that over eight years of public consultation EDF has tried hard to be transparent. He doesn’t seem to appreciate that the community has experienced its efforts as truculent and dismissive.

Despite repeated demands at each of the four stage of public consultation it has, in particular, failed to provide any evidence of substance and quality on the probable cumulative environmental impact of its development on this
uniquely sensitive landscape and coastline.

The consequence has been that communities that were not in principle opposed to Sizewell C have become its bitterest opponents. Such is the loss of any faith in the integrity of EDF that many now believe that it will exploit the opportunity of this grave national crisis to drive its application forward as aggressively as possible.

It will thus seek to minimise the depth of scrutiny that its very
complex proposals demand at a time when statutory agencies, county,
district and parish councils, conservation bodies and community groups have the least capacity to undertake this. https://www.eadt.co.uk/news

April 6, 2020 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, politics, UK

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