According to some scientists, however, removing this piece of environmental protection would threaten the biodiverse ecosystem of the UK’s largest estuary and designated Special Area of Conservation. It could also set a precedent for future projects like Sizewell nuclear power stations in Suffolk.
The Severn estuary supports up to 110 fish species, with fish nurseries serving the whole of the Bristol Channel and Celtic Sea, and an average of 74,000 wintering birds each year. EDF, on the other hand, wants to build fish protection measures like low velocity side entry water intakes designed to minimize the number of fish taken into the system and a fish return system.
To that, Lambert responds for instance that EDF doesn’t take account of “the fact that technology has moved on considerably in the last few years, and systems have now been designed to operate in the conditions of the Severn Estuary” and “how climate change and other external factors might alter the characteristics of fish stocks over the 60 year operating life of the station”.
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