Marine Life and Hinkley C

Posted: 19th February 2022

A grave threat to the oceans and the wellbeing of our communities could be averted with your support for the Save The Severn Estuary Judicial Review Case Fund – how? Just by quickly copying, pasting and sharing the information below amongst your networks so that as many people are aware of the impending danger as possible and have the opportunity to put their opposition into practice. Energy giants EDF dumped contaminated mud in the Severn near Cardiff in 2018; now, rebuffed in Wales, they were given a licence to dump at Portishead. The legal action is to stop them resuming dumping in April. This should be stage-1 in the battle to end EDF’s licence for mass slaughter of fish sucked in the river of seawater for cooling purposes. Save The Severn is a science-led independent coalition who have assembled a case and engaged leading environmental lawyers to challenge MMO’s licence. We obtained Court permission to proceed in December and have a hearing scheduled for 8-10 March in the High Court. EDF are supporting MMO while we have some assistance from the Conservation and Fisheries authority. The Severn Estuary has the highest conservation status, recently becoming a Marine Protection Area where damaging operations are ended. The Welsh Marine Plan accepts this but not England’s Marine Management Organisation (MMO. Some of the Hinkley mud dumped at Cardiff and Portishead smothered the seabed ecology, while most dispersed around the Estuary. Increased radioactivity was detected up the coast and not only near Cardiff following the 2018 dumping. EDF are choosing not to protect marine life for their own profits, and they need to be stopped. We have three weeks to save the Severn Estuary, with the Court Case hearing on 8 March 2022. Save The Severn fundraising page here: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/save-the-severn-estuary/