Hinkley Point Barnstormers — Occupiers aim to stop EDF land trash — video and flyer

“This film gives an account of the first few days of the occu­pa­tion of Lang­bor­ough Farm on the site of one of the pro­posed ‘new wave’ of Nuclear Reac­tors, at Hink­ley point in Som­er­set. The activists took occu­pan­cy in the ear­ly hours of Sun­day the 12th of Feb­ru­ary and are set­tling in to their new home and com­mu­ni­ty.”

Check out this great vid of the open­ing days of the occu­pa­tion

 

Thurs­day, 16 Feb­ru­ary 2012, South West Against Nuclear:

Activists who have occu­pied a farm to oppose ground clear­ance for a new nuclear site in West Som­er­set today entered the fifth day of their stand-off with the French ener­gy com­pa­ny EDF.

The pro­test­ers entered Lang­bor­ough Farm at Hink­ley Point on Sat­ur­day night and estab­lished a camp around derelict build­ings which are believed to house hiber­nat­ing bats. They want the “Pre­lim­i­nary Works”, which will clear and lev­el sev­er­al hun­dred acres of Som­er­set coastal land to be halt­ed for 12 months until EDF know if they actu­al­ly have per­mis­sion to build their pro­posed reac­tors.

“Cur­rent­ly EDF have no per­mis­sion to build here, but aston­ish­ing­ly they DO have per­mis­sion to destroy this pre­cious part of our com­mon nat­ur­al her­itage” said farm occu­pant Theo Simon. “If this land and these habi­tats are lost and then they don’t get plan­ning per­mis­sion, EDF will have com­mit­ted an act of unprece­dent­ed eco­log­i­cal van­dal­ism. If on the oth­er hand, as many locals now sus­pect, the plan­ning per­mis­sion is already a “done deal” then that means the cur­rent IPC pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion is an expen­sive sham.”

Mr Simon (53) said that their camp has now been strength­ened with food and water and oth­er sup­plies brought in by local well-wish­ers. Yes­ter­day campers were vis­it­ed by West Som­er­set Dis­trict Coun­cil­lor Jon Free­man, who told them how he thought the plan­ning process had been cor­rupt­ed by pres­sure from cen­tral gov­ern­ment and the edf. today they were advised by a retired Hink­ley B engi­neer who explained his tech­ni­cal reser­va­tions about flaws in the EDF’s reac­tor and waste stor­age plans.

Anoth­er occu­pi­er, Nik­ki Clark, said, “Already our sup­port is grow­ing here, peo­ple who had begun to give up hope, have been empow­ered by our occu­pa­tion, and they are free to walk up the foot­paths to vis­it us. There is a lot of resent­ment in this are at the way this project has been steam-rollered through, but we’re here to draw a line on the ground. The wan­ton destruc­tion of this beau­ti­ful land must be halt­ed until there has been a gen­uine demo­c­ra­t­ic process the begin­ning of which must be Par­lia­ment deem­ing the Nation­al State­ments as fraud­u­lent in the light if the cor­rup­tion of gov­er­nance report.”

The new res­i­dents are all look­ing for­ward to the stop new nuclear sur­round & block­ade of Hink­ley Point on March 10th & 11th to mark the first anniver­sary of the begin­ning of the Fukushi­ma cat­a­stro­phe. Around 400 peo­ple descend­ed on the sta­tion last Octo­ber to dis­rupt EDFs oper­a­tions & voice their dis­sent at the so-called Nuclear Renais­sance.

ENDS

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Notes:

Details of the Stop New Nuclear sur­round & block­ade avail­able here:  http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk

South West Against Nuclear:
http://southwestagainstnuclear.wordpress.com

Stop Nuclear Pow­er Net­work:
http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net

Boy­cott EDF Ener­gy:
 http://boycottedf.org.uk

Twit­ter: @StopNukePower @NoNewNuclear @StopNewNuclear @BoycottEDF #Occu­py­Hink­ley

‘Join the Hink­ley Barn­stomers’ fly­er avail­able for down­load here:  https://we.riseup.net/assets/83705/barnstormer.pdf