AN Exmoor parish council chairman is demandingthe Environment Agency explain why it has dropped a requirement for HinkleyPoint C nuclear power station to use acoustic fish deterrents (AFDs) in itswater intakes in the Bristol Channel. Anti-nuclear campaigners fear 11 billion fish could be killed during the 60-year lifetime of the £27 billion power station if…
West Somerset Free Press, 6th February 2023 ANTI-nuclear campaigners have estimated 11 billion fish off the West Somerset coastline could be killed during the operating life of the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station. The Stop Hinkley group said the slaughter would arise if EDF was allowed to ‘wriggle out’ of planning conditions which required acoustic…