In response to the announcement from Minister of State for Energy Michael Fallon that the benefits for 'local communities hosting new nuclear power stations' would be funded by DECC, Dr Doug Parr, Chief Scientist at Greenpeace UK, said –
“Whilst wind farms and even shale gas developers have to pay community benefits, only nuclear stations will get a fat taxpayer subsidy to fund them. Our entire energy policy is now absurdly distorted by the desperation to prop up EDF’s faltering Hinkley C project, with the government piling the costs onto the taxpayer to avoid the embarrassment of admitting they backed the wrong technology. We can’t go on like this.”
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