Press Release – 13th April 2020 In the past weeks BANNG has been writing to the Chinese developer of Bradwell B pressing it to cancel its pre-application public consultation on its proposals for a new nuclear power station and long-term, highly radioactive waste stores at Bradwell and, if necessary, rerun it when the country is … [Continue Reading]
Does Coronavirus stop Bradwell B in its tracks?
BANNG column for Regional Life, March, 2020. No sooner had the pre-application public consultation on Bradwell B got under way than it was part-suspended as a result of coronavirus. After a week of visiting places such as Maldon and Bradwell, the Bradwell B (BRB) programme of exhibitions around the Blackwater was halted with ten places … [Continue Reading]
BRB Planning Application: FUL/MAL/20/00157 BANNG Paper 42
BRB Planning Application: FUL/MAL/20/00157: Land East of Bradwell Power Station, Downhall Beach Bradwell-on-Sea Application to carry out ground investigations, load test and associated works in connection with a proposed Nuclear Power Station at Bradwell-on-Sea, together with the creation of two site compound areas and associated parking areas Comments from the Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group … [Continue Reading]
BANNG Press Release – 19th March 2020
Calls for Bradwell B new nuclear power station public consultation to be halted. In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic, Bradwell B has cancelled two-thirds of the exhibitions it had planned as part of its public consultation on its proposals for a new nuclear power station. But, the company is still calling for feedback on … [Continue Reading]
BANNG Press Release – 10th March 2020
Bradwell B plans more horrendous than feared. But it is NOT a done deal! Plans for a new nuclear power station at Bradwell have been released. The Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group (BANNG), which has campaigned against the project for the last eleven years, has expressed its concern at the scale, devastation, pollution and danger … [Continue Reading]
STOP PRESS!!! Chinese developer to start pre-application consultation on Bradwell B (BRB) imminently…
With reference to the Press Release entitled: ‘Chinese nuclear developer taking a gamble on premature proposal’, which was distributed to you recently, we have just found out that GNSL is proposing to start the pre-application consultation on 4th March 2020.There will be a series of exhibitions around the Blackwater estuary. Click to view the first … [Continue Reading]
Press Release – 20th February 2020 – URGENT!
Chinese nuclear developer taking a gamble on premature proposal for Bradwell B General Nuclear System Limited (GNSL), the Chinese-led company seeking to build a mammoth new nuclear power station at Bradwell, has suddenly announced it will be launching its pre-application public consultation on 4th March 2020. There was no mention of this in the February … [Continue Reading]
Press Release – 18th February 2020
Chinese nuclear developer taking a gamble on premature proposal for Bradwell B. The Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group (BANNG) has learned that GNSL, the Chinese-led company seeking to build a mammoth new nuclear power station at Bradwell, is preparing to launch its pre-application public consultation for planning permission later this year. This will be long … [Continue Reading]
BANNG continues to… keep BANNGing on!
Varrie Blowers looks forward to what 2020 may hold for new nuclear and reviews BANNG’s activities through 2019 column in the February 2020 edition of Regional Life. It may appear that all has been quiet on the eastern front in the recent past but Chinese developer, CGN, seems intent on carrying out its plans to … [Continue Reading]
Get Climate Done…
As we enter a new year, Andy Blowers muses on the massive challenge of climate change that lies ahead, globally and locally, in the column for Regional Life, January 2020. While there is some relief that the General Election is over, it does not feel like ‘glad confident morning again!’ (Robert Browning). On the environment … [Continue Reading]