New nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point C is approved
Source: BBC
The first of a planned new generation of nuclear power plants in the UK has been given approval.
Energy Secretary Ed Davey told MPs in the Commons that he was granting planning consent for French energy giant EDF to construct Hinkley Point C in Somerset.
The proposed £14bn power plant would be capable of powering five million homes.
Mr Davey said the project was "of crucial national importance" but environmental groups reacted angrily.
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Greenpeace executive director John Sauven said: "It will lock a generation of consumers into higher energy bills, via a strike price that's expected to be double the current price of electricity, and it will distort energy policy by displacing newer, cleaner, cheaper technologies.
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You have to wonder what level of corruption is needed to approve a boondoggle like this.
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No, I don't have an faith in the integrity of *any* corporation than afford to construct
and operate such places but I'd much rather that it was on an existing site (with A & B)
than on a new greenfield site (as has been "suggested" in the past).
