Press Release – 14 July, 2020 At its meeting on 9 July, the full Maldon District Council (MDC) comprehensively refused to grant Planning Permission to the Chinese developer, BRB, to carry out further ground investigations at the Bradwell B site. 24 Councillors voted against the Planning Application, 2 abstained and the Leader excluded himself from … [Continue Reading]
Chinese plans for Bradwell B new nuclear power station dealt a bolt from the blue
STOP PRESS – 9th July 2020 Maldon District Council Planning Committee’s comprehensive rejection today of the Chinese state-backed nuclear developer’s (CGN) application for permission to undertake ground investigations came like a bolt from the blue. For so long a firm supporter of a new nuclear power station at Bradwell, Maldon has done a complete volte-face. … [Continue Reading]
The coming of Bradwell B. What once seemed incredible is now the ‘new normal’
Andy Blowers, social scientist and Chair of BANNG, considers the social transformation that Bradwell B could bring in the July 2020 column for Regional Life. We live in strange times. Just as the coronavirus began its lethal spread, the plans for a new nuclear power station at Bradwell were launched. For the past four months … [Continue Reading]
‘Bradwell is unsustainable, unsuitable and unacceptable as a site for a massive, new nuclear power station. The proposal must be rejected’, says BANNG
Press Release – 16 June, 2020 Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group (BANNG) has called for the Bradwell B project as a whole to be rejected. Launching BANNG’s detailed response to the proposals from the Chinese developer, BRB, Andy Blowers, Chair of BANNG said, ‘This is not a done deal as CGN would have us believe. … [Continue Reading]
Small nuclear reactors – another nuclear fantasy
Peter Banks, BANNG Co-ordinator, concludes that advanced nuclear technologies are no answer for Bradwell in the March 2020 column for Regional Life #23 Published 5th February 2020 – Small Modular Reactors (Part 1)… The nuclear industry has championed a rosy future for their anachronistic technology with the expression “Nuclear Renaissance”. In reality the programme of … [Continue Reading]
Should Bradwell B carry on at a time of Coronavirus?
Andy Blowers questions if doing so is in the public interest in the BANNG column for Regional Life June 2020 (no May edition) Coronavirus provides a shock requiring immediate and profound changes in the way we live. Travel is suspended, gatherings forbidden, the economy paused and society is in lockdown while we stay apart and … [Continue Reading]
Bradwell B – is it the end of the road for the ‘golden relationship’ with China?
Press Release – 26th May 2020 The ‘golden era’ in relations between Britain and China which gave birth to the prospect of a Chinese nuclear power station on the Blackwater appears to be foundering less than five years after its triumphant proclamation at the State Visit of the Chinese President Xi Jinping, in October 2015. … [Continue Reading]
Stop Bradwell B Consultation NOW!
Press Release – 19 May, 2020 The Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group (BANNG) has repeated its call for the public consultation on plans for a new nuclear power station at Bradwell to be halted and rerun at a time when the coronavirus crisis is over. ‘We are amazed that the developer, CGN, is urging people … [Continue Reading]
Observer ‘Your Letters’ contribution by Andy Blowers
Maldon District Council must hold off granting Bradwell B site investigations
Press Release – 5 May, 2020 Now is not the time for Maldon District Council to be considering whether to permit the Chinese nuclear developer, CGN, to undertake extensive site investigations on the Dengie Peninsula that could prepare the ground for the building of a new nuclear power station. The Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group … [Continue Reading]