APRIL 2021 : Where do you stand?
BANNG recently linked up with the Bradwell Action Network (BAN) and wrote to as many of the candidates standing in the 2021 Essex County Council Elections for whom we could track down contact details. We asked them where they stood on the proposed Bradwell B nuclear power station (click here to read the message we sent)
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APRIL 2021 : What’s it all about?
Andy Blowers speculates on the real reason behind the Environment Agency’s recent public consultation on Bradwell B in the BANNG column for the April 2021 edition of Regional Life magazine… click here to continue reading article in full
*** To read BANNG’s full response to the above consultation click here ***
MARCH 2021 : If Wylfa falls can Bradwell be far behind?
Andy Blowers asks if the demise of Wylfa sets a precedent for Bradwell B in the March 2021 edition of Regional Life.
On the remote northern coast of Anglesey, facing the grey rollers of the Irish Sea is a huge concrete sarcophagus. Two huge cylindrical blocks linked together and clad in block colours of green… click here to continue reading article in full
FEBRUARY-2021 : Now you see it, now you don’t… Bradwell B to be paused?
Maldon District Council (MDC) have recently been informed by the developer (BRB) applying for consent to build the nuclear power plant at Bradwell on Sea that “engagement and all active project work will pause for at least a year”. We have been told that BRB stated they “remain committed to the project” and MDC plan to re-engage with them “when they are ready to do so”.
‘Now it seems, the project is slowing down and no longer so vital. The indefinite pause makes one wonder if this could be the beginning of the end for a project for which there is no vital need and which will create irretrievable damage and danger to the coastal communities of Essex’, said Prof. Andy Blowers, Chair of BANNG.
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FEBRUARY-2021 : Try your hand in the BIG BANNG Quiz!
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JANUARY-2021 : Andy Blowers asks if the tide has turned on Bradwell B in January 2021 edition of Regional Life
What a difference a year makes. This time, last year, there was little inkling of the momentous impact of coronavirus in changing our lives through lockdown, social distancing and the brooding anxiety about our health, our economy and, indeed, our very survival.
Yet, at the very moment last March when our lives were turned inward, a cloud, for so long no bigger than a man’s hand on the distant horizon, was transformed into a massive and menacing threat to the health, wellbeing and peaceful surroundings of the Blackwater communities. For, just before lockdown, the plans for Bradwell B were announced and a public consultation began.
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JANUARY-2021 : BANNG Press Release – 5th January 2021
Maldon District Council’s suggestion that Small Modular Reactors could be considered for Bradwell flies entirely in the face of its recent pronouncements.
At its meeting on 17 December, Maldon District Council (MDC) voted by a majority of one in favour of a recommendation from its Bradwell B Working Group to send a letter to the local MP, John Whittingdale, and to the Head of Nuclear Development at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in support of the development of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs).
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