As Hinkley Point C (HPC) power plant is being built in South West England by Électricité de France (EDF), hundreds of thousands of fish living in the Severn estuary, including protected Atlantic salmon, are under threat from the plant’s cooling turbines. The UK Environment Agency (EA) has decided that this wholesale slaughter is perfectly okay. On August 1, the EA announced that it had removed the requirement to install an acoustic fish deterrent (AFD) at the head of its seawater … read more »
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