EDF has complained that the British Government’s windfall tax, introduced on 1 January, may mean an early end for operations at Hartlepool & Heysham 1, but the Nuclear Free Local Authorities believe that these could be ‘crocodile tears’ with the tax providing the perfect excuse for the French-state owned company to bow out of running these increasingly unreliable reactors, which are already way past their close-by date. In his November statement, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt extended the windfall tax to a … read more »
The post Hartlepool & Heysham 1 appeared first on No2NuclearPower.
