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Dear Ed Miliband,
You are creating a crisis in Suffolk. We have had no rain for six weeks and the rich brown earth is drying out. The food we grow feeds London. £900 million pounds is being spent on concreting over farmland to create roads before even the first slab of nuclear reactor is laid. Cutting down 21,000 trees which capture carbon and emit oxygen and running trucks on diesel contribute to heating up the planet. The woodlands that provided shade are gone and their network of roots will no longer prevent soil erosion. Hinkley and Sizewell will produce 14% of the UK’s electricity but at what cost? When the floods come, the rain will run off the compacted fields into our homes with no ditches or hedgerows and trees as defences and the Wetlands was not only a site for astonishing dragonflies but a vital outlet for flood water. The sandpipers have left RSPB Minsmere. Would it really not be better to switch off our ‘phones, put a solar panel on our roofs and sort out coherent community-led wind production?
Come and talk to the farmers. Come and talk to people who understand the land. It is not too late to stop Sizewell C and start replanting trees.
ness365 