Reclaim Hinkley — 8 October 2012 — MASS TRESPASS, MASS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

No New Nuclear — Inter­na­tion­al call out

Join us in an act of mass civ­il dis­obe­di­ence as we tres­pass on the pro­posed site of Hink­ley C nuclear pow­er sta­tion in Som­er­set.

 

No New Nuclear — Inter­na­tion­al call out

Join us in an act of mass civ­il dis­obe­di­ence as we tres­pass on the pro­posed site of Hink­ley C nuclear pow­er sta­tion in Som­er­set.

 

EDF Ener­gy is already trash­ing frag­ile Som­er­set coun­try­side in prepa­ra­tion for the Hink­ley C nuclear pow­er sta­tion – even though it hasn’t got plan­ning per­mis­sion to start build­ing.

SOWING THE SEEDS OF DISSENT

This mass action is for any­one who feels able to pub­licly tres­pass — or bear wit­ness to the mass tres­pass by join­ing us around the perime­ter fence. We need peo­ple who are pre­pared to be arrest­ed.

We also need peo­ple to sup­port those who are tres­pass­ing by gath­er­ing around the perime­ter fence. We will be pro­vid­ing legal brief­in­gs and sup­port for any tres­passers who are arrest­ed.

Our aim is to make the tres­pass as safe and dig­ni­fied as pos­si­ble. All our activ­i­ties are bound by the prin­ci­ples of non-vio­lent direct action. We are hold­ing a camp imme­di­ate­ly before the tres­pass so that every­one involved has a voice in plan­ning the action itself.

On the day of the tres­pass, we will attempt to rein­tro­duce some of the bio­di­ver­si­ty that has been stripped through EDFs pre­ma­ture pre­lim­i­nary works.

Once inside we will scat­ter wild­flow­ers and oth­er species native to this site. By show­ing your sup­port for an end to nuclear pow­er, you are part a grow­ing move­ment that is expos­ing this cor­rupt gov­ern­ment pol­i­cy that puts prof­its before safe­ty.

EDF is Eager­ly Destroy­ing Fields even though it doesn’t yet have per­mis­sion to build the reac­tors — nor does it have approval for the reac­tor design, or even a final invest­ment deci­sion.

The new EPR reac­tor design will pro­duce radioac­tive waste that is so tox­ic that it will have to be stored on site for over 100 years. The dan­gers asso­ci­at­ed with flood­ing, ter­ror­ist attack and acci­den­tal leak­age are total­ly unac­cept­able.

NO MORE NUCLEAR BAILOUTS

The move­ment against the gov­ern­men­t’s so-called ‘nuclear renais­sance’ is winning….but we must keep up the pres­sure. Out of the eight new nuclear pow­er sta­tions sup­port­ed by the coali­tion gov­ern­ment when it came into pow­er, only two are still on the table: Hink­ley in Som­er­set and Sizewell in Suf­folk.

French-owned EDF Ener­gy — the own­er of Hink­ley and Sizewell — is pres­sur­ing the gov­ern­ment to increase the range of hid­den sub­si­dies on offer in a des­per­ate bid to attract inter­est from scep­ti­cal investors. THIS MUST NOT HAPPEN.

If EDF gets its way, it will be a dou­ble wham­my for us — and for future gen­er­a­tions. It will mean we pay twice: once as tax­pay­ers and once as con­sumers through our ener­gy bills.

We say put the £60bn ear­marked for ‘new nuclear’ into a clean­er, green­er, fair­er future. The way for­ward is through ener­gy reduc­tion and greater invest­ment into research and devel­op­ment to make renew­able ener­gy and ener­gy stor­age fit for the 21st cen­tu­ry.

We need to cre­ate a long term sus­tain­able ener­gy plan that is based on meet­ing peo­ple’s needs rather than mak­ing prof­its for investors. In May, ener­gy sec­re­tary Charles Hendry told min­is­ters at a select com­mit­tee hear­ing that the government’s ener­gy pol­i­cy would be robust enough with­out includ­ing nuclear in the mix. It’s time we moved ener­gy pol­i­cy for­wards rather than back­wards.

NUCLEAR IS NOT THE ANSWER

.…Cher­nobyl
The cri­sis is far from over: the sar­coph­a­gus cov­er­ing the doomed Russ­ian reac­tor is falling apart. Only this year, gov­ern­ments final­ly approved the fund­ing for a new one. The human pop­u­la­tion in the most heav­i­ly con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed ter­ri­to­ries is in decline. In Belarus 80% of chil­dren were born healthy before Cher­nobyl. Now, just 26 years lat­er, only 20% of chil­dren are born healthy.

.….Fukushi­ma
Thanks to peo­ple pow­er, all of Japan’s reac­tors have now been turned off. For the first time in over half a cen­tu­ry Japan is nuclear free. How­ev­er, the cri­sis at Fukushi­ma is far from over.

  • The Japan­ese peo­ple are foot­ing the bill. The com­pa­ny behind the pow­er sta­tion, Tep­co, has had to be re-nation­alised because of the spi­ralling cost of com­pen­sa­tion and the ongo­ing attempts to sta­bilise the reac­tors.
  • Many peo­ple are still liv­ing in heav­i­ly con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed areas that should have been evac­u­at­ed.
  • Food across Japan is heav­i­ly con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed and peo­ple are being encour­aged to sup­port the farm­ers of Fukushi­ma by eat­ing it.
  • The triple melt­down is still in full swing.
  • All of the fuel pools in reac­tors 1,2,3 & 4 are in bad con­di­tion.
  • The pool in reac­tor 4 is of par­tic­u­lar con­cern. Thou­sands of high­ly radioac­tive spent fuel rods are at risk of fur­ther explo­sions. If such an event occurs, high lev­els of radioac­tive con­t­a­m­i­na­tion could spread as far as Tokyo and wipe out Japan’s com­mer­cial infra­struc­ture.

WE WANT A FUTURE, NOT A DISASTER

More infor­ma­tion com­ing soon.

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