Big Thank You to everyone who has helped so far in enabling Save the Severn to take legal action to stop radioactive mud being dumped in the Severn Estuary.

Posted: 2nd February 2022

Big Thank You to everyone who has helped so far in enabling Save the Severn to take legal action to stop radioactive mud being dumped in the Severn Estuary.

Stop Hinkley’s supporters contributions were fantastic and enabled Save The Severn to start the legal process for a Judicial Review to halt EDF’s destruction of the most protected Marine Environment in the UK. 

The Judicial Review will take place in London on 8-10th March. By then we will need a further £50,000 to support our specialist environmental solicitors Leigh Day to continue representing us in Court.  

Tarian Hafren – Save the Severn is a group of scientists, experts, individuals and organisations, including Stop Hinkley. We are calling on the Marine Management Organisation to revoke the license they granted to EDF to dredge and dump more mud, contaminated by the Hinkley A and B nuclear power stations, onto the tidal mudflats off Portishead this coming Spring.

This dumping is a result of Hinkley Point C, a new nuclear power station, which will itself kill billions of fish during its sixty year operation. 

These are the three key reasons why the Severn Estuary is under threat from EDF:-

1. Over the last 70 years the Hinkley A and B power stations have been releasing radioactive particles which include plutonium with a half-life of 24,000 years. Dredging will disturb the sediments which will then reach the land through sea-spray and wind.   This will damage the safety and well-being of the estuary, it’s inhabitants and coastal populations of Avonmouth, Bristol, Newport, Cardiff, Barry and beyond. 

2. EDF is building Hinkley Point C’s massive seawater cooling system that will damage and kill millions of fish every year. EDF have asked permission to omit the protection of an Acoustic Fish Deterrent system that is required by their current Licence. EDF are trying to claim that this system will be ineffective. 

3. The new nuclear power station will suck in 29,000 gallons of seawater and marine life every second, heat it up by 10 degrees and send it back into the estuary, wasting more energy into the environment than all the electrical power Hinkley C will generate. That heat and pressure changes will kill the ecology of the estuary which is already warming up due to climate change.

For more information see https://www.save-the-severn.com/  

Please help us fund this action .

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