Josie Bassinette on Sizewell C, Morag Carmichael on generational thinking, Bob Cannell on mini-nukes, Linda Rogers on Wylfa, Jon Reeds on tidal power, Malcolm Scott on anaerobic digestion and Ian Jones on energy from waste
Your article (PM to put nuclear power at heart of UK’s energy strategy, 6 April) refers to Sizewell C as one of the major projects that has “already been through some form of planning”. The planning process is still going on, and thousands of interested parties have objected. Six months of Planning Inspectorate meetings exposed the mistakes of trying to build two gigantic reactors in the middle of an area of outstanding natural beauty and site of special scientific interest, pushed against the Minsmere nature reserve, on an eroding coastline, and with no available water for construction or operation, among other problems.
This hasn’t stopped Kwasi Kwarteng promising millions in taxpayer funding for Sizewell C when the planning process has not been completed and while he refuses to meet the community to hear alternative views.
Josie Bassinette
Walberswick, Suffolk