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Legal challenge to license for EDF to dump radioactive mud in the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary

Campaigners are calling on the government to prohibit energy giant EDF
from dumping contaminated mud in the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary.
They say mud from the new Hinkley power station development is ‘a risk to
human health, threatens protected marine habitats and damages a treasure of
Britain’s natural world’.

EDF says all waste from the site is controlled
and regulated to ‘ensure the environment and public are protected’.

But Save the Severn, organised by a collaborative group of scientists and
environmental activists, is urging people to get behind its campaign to
halt further waste – including chemical and radioactive contaminants –
getting dumped in an international marine protected area near Portishead.

Campaigners will also challenge the legality of a license granted by the
Marine Management Organisation (MMO) to EDF for dumping waste in March,
when they will present a legal challenge against the company at a judicial
review.

 Weston Mercury 15th Feb 2022

https://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/news/campaign-group-wants-to-save-the-severn-8692070

February 17, 2022 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment, Legal, UK, wastes