Energy security achievable without Sizewell C
Writes Julian Cusack How can we keep the lights on without Sizewell C? My short answer is that its 3.2GW capacity is simply not enough to make a significant contribution to energy security, when demand for electricity will at least double on the route to a Net Zero economy. Renewable sources can provide all the electricity we will need, both faster and more cheaply. We anticipate that electricity supply will need to increase to between 2 and 2.5 times the current level. This is because declining fossil fuel use in other sectors will require electrification, notably in transport […]
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GREENS JOIN PROTEST AT SIZEWELL C SITE
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 […]
GREENS CALL FOR URGENT ACTION ON ROADS NEAR SIZEWELL C SITE
MEDIA RELEASE: 13 December 2023 GREENS CALL FOR URGENT ACTION ON ROADS NEAR SIZEWELL C SITE The Green Party’s Prospective Parliamentary Candidate Julian Cusack today called on Suffolk County Council and EDF to ‘get a grip’ on road and traffic conditions near the proposed Sizewell C site amid persistent rumours that the Government will ‘green light’ construction in January. Julian Cusack said, “During the early years of SZC construction, the existing road infrastructure will need to take considerably more traffic than ever before. It is now imperative that Suffolk County Council and the Police Authority, funded by EDF, implement integrated […]
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GREENS CALL FOR NATIONAL PARK STATUS FOR SUFFOLK COAST AND HEATHS AONB
The Green Party’s Prospective Parliamentary Candidate Julian Cusack today called on Natural England to consider designation of the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) as the ‘Suffolk Coast and Heaths National Park’. Julian Cusack said, “The government has announced there will be a new national park in England[1] and now would be a good time to think about setting one up in the east of the country.” In the last decade the landscape of East Suffolk has come under attack from a proliferation of proposals for major energy projects including subsea cable landfalls, cable corridors and […]
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Green Party opposes LionLink landfall in East Suffolk
Julian Cusack, the Green Party candidate for Suffolk Coastal, is urging as many people as possible to respond directly to National Grid and reject all its options for LIONLINK, the project to bring offshore wind energy onshore in East Suffolk. The non-statutory consultation by National Grid closes on Friday 3rd November 2023. Julian Cusack said “The consultation process is flawed. National Grid has already decided to bring electricity cables onshore across unspoilt coastline in Suffolk, to dig trenches across areas of outstanding natural beauty and scientific interest, to destroy habitats and farming land and build substations and hubs in rural […]
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Mid-Suffolk Greens cut through the confusion about mowing public land
Green Party councillors in Mid-Suffolk are receiving more and more complaints about grass growing tall and not being cut. To reassure the public and set the story straight, they have published a very short guide to the basics, accompanied by a fuller explanation of meadow management and how it works. Councillor Dr Dan Pratt, an ecologist, said: “We need to do all we can to reverse the decline in biodiversity, including pollinators and other insects. Flora and fauna are under pressure from intensive agricultural practices, pollution, development and global temperature rise. “All species need ways to find nearby habitat, stepping-stones […]
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