Oh well, back to the day job. A relief in one way, I suppose. Sheer folly in another. The day started with a shout out from Stop Sizewell C to be at the main Sizewell C office at noon since Starmer was coming to the seaside. Drop everything and come. Alison’s e-mail down all morning. Then cancelled. Relaxing having lunch when recalled for Channel 4 and BBC. After months of head-banging, they have come. Quite surreal chatting to Mark Harris and Bethley Tesfaye (off-camera) on the beach. They had a twenty minute walk then interviewed Alison while a few empty hydrogen double deckers, J.T. Fews and one water carrier amongst the usual traffic went past.
The workers, diggers, have finished at Hinkley and come here. Local construction companies will benefit but this will be counter-balanced by the loss of jobs in the tourism industry. 100,000 people work in that sector worth £5.4 billion with a revenue of £200 a million a year. The daily pollution from 1100 diesel trucks and 10,000 cars in our villages. The noise, visual disturbance, scale that has destroyed Sizewell’s sensitive landscape and rare species. And the food. Starmer talks of energy security but food security is more important. 620 acres of farmland going under concrete.
The irony that our backdrop was wind, waves, sun.
The irony that National Grid are paid not to use solar and wind when too much energy is produced.
The irony that Starmer launched from Ipswich, a town 33 miles away from the site, the equivalent of opening Parliament in Reading.
We don’t need nuclear.
ness365 