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Maldon District Council Planning Committee does an about turn, now rejects Bradwell nuclear power project

BANNG 9th July 2020, Maldon District Council Planning Committee’s comprehensive rejection
today of the Chinese state-backed nuclear developer’s (CGN) application
for permission to undertake ground investigations came like a bolt from the
blue.

For so long a firm supporter of a new nuclear power station at
Bradwell, Maldon has done a complete volte-face.

Prof. Andy Blowers, Chair of the Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group (BANNG) commented: ‘From the
moment CGN revealed its plans just before lockdown it became clear the
Bradwell B project would be dead in the water. The massive scale of the
project which would totally overwhelm the Blackwater area and the Dengie
peninula has proved too much to stomach, even for those who were seduced by
the promise of thousands of jobs. The price, in terms of loss of
environment and wellbeing, was simply too high.’

But the project is also
being threatened by the political fallout in relations with China. Chinese
ambitions to build a new nuclear power station at Bradwell do not come
without serious risks to national security and the threat of Chinese
economic dominance over the UK’s sensitive infrastructure.

https://www.banng.info/uncategorized/chinese-plans-for-bradwell-b-new-nuclear-power-station-dealt-a-bolt-from-the-blue/

July 14, 2020 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | opposition to nuclear, politics, UK