Say No to Sizewell C

What has kept many people going throughout lockdown is nature.  The Assistant Warden Paul Greene from Minsmere Bird Reserve, locked away from his wildlife, made wire sculptures of garden birds for Grayson’s Art Club. People are identifying birds and learning bird song. Astonishing photography of flowers and trees has emerged from first timers.

So it is even more surprising then that EDF were allowed to chop down trees in Coronation Wood with nesting barbarelle bats in them before they have planning permission to build Sizewell C. The two nuclear reactors will devastate habitats for preserved species such as purple dragonflies, yellow horned poppies and black redstarts and enjoyed by walkers, ornithologists, scientists, fishermen and school children for a thirty-mile radius. When the opportunities for wind, solar and wave power are so huge in Suffolk, when we are burdening future generations with radioactive waste, when an accident would be fatal and the financial loss to the tourism industry huge, why don’t we tune in with nature and work together to create light, heat, beauty and energy in a chain of well-being?