Not good news for future generations who might want to swim in the Sizewell Bay.
ENVIRONMENT AGENCY ISSUES 3 Environmental Permits for Sizewell C
The Environment Agency (EA) press release is available Here
Together Against Sizewell C (TASC) is appalled that the Environment Agency (EA), whose remit is to ‘protect and improve the environment and improve the quality of our water, land and air by tackling pollution’ is willing to sanction the wholesale contamination that Sizewell C will inflict on sea, land and air of the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. No matter which way the EA spins it or to whom they defer in their calculations to demonstrate the ‘safety’ of Sizewell C’s radiological and other discharges, the Agency can’t escape the fact that the accurate calculation of Sizewell C’s health and environmental impacts from the atmospheric and marine discharges it authorises remains largely unknown. TASC is concerned that the EA has failed to assess the ecological impact caused by hundreds of millions of small and juvenile fish which, along with vast quantities of other marine biota, will be entrained and killed in Sizewell C’s cooling water system and discharged back to the Sizewell Bay, each and every year of its 60 years of operation.
See Dr Peter Henderson’s excellent report for TASCs DCO submission to the planning inspectorate regarding the impacts Sizewell C will have on the marine environment.
The permits are required for the station to operate and will allow it to:
- dispose of and discharge radioactive waste (radioactive substances activity permit)
- operate standby power supply systems using diesel generators (combustion activity permit)
- discharge returned abstracted seawater (from the cooling water system and 2 fish recovery and returns systems) and other liquid trade effluents (including treated sewage effluent) to the Greater Sizewell Bay – North Sea (water discharge activity permit)
