Energy Minister, Andrew Bowie, visits Suffolk but refuses to meet Together Against Sizewell C
Minister Andrew Bowie arrived in Suffolk on a whistle stop tour to meet local MPs, EDF Sizewell C Co, Stop Sizewell C, local opposition to Windfarm infrastructure projects and others, but not Together Against Sizewell C (TASC) who had specifically written to the Minister to request a meeting. The reason given for TASC’s exclusion, was that TASC has an ongoing Judicial Review against the Secretary of State, even though the case has been heard and is awaiting the Judge’s decision.
Jenny Kirtley, Chair of TASC, spoke to Minister Bowie outside the Aldeburgh venue, it transpired he had agreed to meet Suffolk Energy Action Solutions, who have their own Judicial Review against the Government, the court hearing starting on the 24th of May. When asked the question “What’s the difference”? his somewhat surprising reply was ‘I have no idea’. Local MP, Dr Therese Coffey stepped in to say, quote ‘There’s quite a difference, you are actively in the High Court…that is not the situation right now [with SEAS]’.
TASC are not actively in the High Court, just awaiting a decision.
Jenny Kirtley said “TASC can only draw conclusions that Minister Bowie and Secretary of State Therese Coffey are ideologically pro-nuclear and did not want to engage with a group who have, for over a decade, challenged the government’s new nuclear policy and then dared to take a legal case against the Sizewell C project.”
Minister Bowie & local MP Therese Coffey meeting a member of TASC (unofficially)
