EDF rejects radioactivity concerns over Hinkley Point dredging
EDF has this week rejected concerns about radioactivity from its dredging in the Bristol Channel around Hinkley Point power station near Burnham-On-Sea.
A coalition of concerned Bristol Channel researchers and campaigners says they have undertaken a pre-dredging radioactivity survey near Hinkley Point because “EDF, who want to dump radioactivity in the Bristol Channel, refuse to do it.”
The coalition, representing interests from both Welsh and English communities along the Bristol Channel/Severn estuary coasts, has appealed to the CEOs of the Marine Management Organisation and Natural Resources Wales (who must both adjudicate on EDF’s application to dredge) and the Westminster and Welsh Governments, who oversee those two agencies, to postpone any dumping decision until the survey results are published. The coalition has also formally requested a Public Inquiry to discuss the issues.
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Today, after Prime Minister’s Questions, South Lakes MP Tim Farron will put forward a Ten-Minute Rule Bill for the creation of an independent regulator to protect the UK’s food, farming and environmental standards. The new regulator would ensure that imports meet UK standards for animal welfare and environmental protections – preventing products like chlorinated chicken or hormone treated beef flooding the British market. It would also have new powers to ensure that the Government and public authorities comply with their environmental and climate targets, by issuing sanctions for those that fail to meet them. The Government had promised to create a new environmental regulator, replacing the role the European Commission played before Brexit.