GREENS JOIN PROTEST AT SIZEWELL C SITE
Green Party Parliamentary candidate Julian Cusack attended a protest outside the gates to the Nuclear Power Station at Sizewell in East Suffolk. He and local residents were protesting about today's government decision to trigger the start of work on the Sizewell C site. This is happening despite the lack of a Final Investment Decision and without the government having secured financing for the project.
Julian Cusack said:
“It would be very unusual in the private sector for work to start on a project before funding was secured. This is being done at the risk of Sizewell C Limited and local residents are understandably upset that significant detriment will be caused to local landscapes and the local road network without certainty that the project will ever be properly funded, let alone finished”.
He added “there is a real risk that costs and timescale for Sizewell C will overrun and turn the project into a white elephant that is never finished and ends up, like phase 2 of HS2, being cancelled down the line.”
