The WPC has added its voice to some 50 other local councils along the Suffolk Coast in expressing our alarm at the number and scale of energy projects proposed for our area.
For example, the town and parish councillors’ joint letter of 3rd March to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy requested an urgent review of the cumulative impact of all the major energy projects planned for this area (there are currently 10 including Sizewell C). The Suffolk Association of Local Councils and more recently the National Association of Local Councils have supported this urgent review. As these projects would affect all of us in East Suffolk, it is vital we continue to engage with the process robustly. The view of the Councils remains that the development of all these energy projects, particularly in such large number and scale, in an area of outstanding national beauty and with very little appropriate infrastructure in place, will cause irreparable environmental damage to this area and have a very negative economic impact on our valuable tourism industry just as businesses in the area are trying to recover from lockdown. EDF has just this week submitted its Development Consent Order (DCO) to go forward with Sizewell C despite the fact that the Covid lock-down severely impacts the ability of the public to engage in this critical process.
A fuller explanation including a list and timetable for all the energy projects proposed over the next 15 years can be found under the Public notices section of this website.
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