Stop Hinkley Campaign At Glastonbury
Festival goers are being asked to support a campaign against plans for a nuclear power station in Somerset.
French energy company EDF is proposing to create an £8 billion nuclear power plant 24 miles away from the festival site at Hinkley Point.
The "Hinkley C"development would be the largest site of its kind in the UK, if it gets built.
Throughout this weekend's Glastonbury Festival members of the Stop Hinkley Campaign will be on site at Worthy Farm to raise the public's awareness of the proposals.
They have a stall set up next to the Croissant Neuf stage in the Green Fields with displays, badges and information.
It's understood nuclear waste would be stored at Hinkley for at least 160 years.
The campaign group argues the development would have a hugely detrimental effect on the surrounding area.
Jim Duffy is the Co coordinator for the group. He told us the plant poses too many threats:
"There are risks to health from the discharges which are routinely pushed out into the sea locally. There's the risk from nuclear waste which will be toxic for a million years, and nobody's got a solution yet as to where it should go. If there was a serious accident then tens of thousands of people would be contaminated."
Mr. Duffy went on to say there's no need for the development. He told us by investing more in sustainable energy sources; we would be able to meet the country's power demands:
"It's possible to have our energy from renewable sources. Britain is the windiest country in Europe and we've got the Bristol Channel which has the second highest tidal fall in the world. We can produce all our electricity by green methods instead of nuclear."
The campaign group will be collecting signatures to add to their petition calling for Liberal Democrat Energy Minister, Chris Huhne to scrap the plans.
They're also calling for a public inquiry to be held into the proposals. Green MP Caroline Lucas, a sponsor of the Stop Hinkley campaign, will be speaking from Glastonbury's Pyramid stage today at 2.40 pm.
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