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Power Station Threats to Western Lake District Dropped
Tuesday, 19 October 2010 08:16
Friends of the Lake District is delighted today the Department for Energy and Climate Change has dropped two proposed sites for new nuclear power stations from their preferred sites within Cumbria.
www.energynpsconsultation.decc.gov.uk/nuclear

Friends of the Lake District cares passionately that the world-renowned Lake District landscape and its internationally important wildlife habitats, including the Duddon Estuary, are not threatened by new power stations and their associated infrastructure, such as power lines and water supplies.

The Department for Energy and Climate Change's (DECC) new policy statement says that Kirkstanton and Braystones were now ‘unsuitable sites' for new power stations. The three main reasons were; the visual and landscape effects upon the Lake District National Park; the need for all the sites at the national level; and the difficulty to develop them by 2025 due to insufficient time to get the supporting infrastructure in place, especially due to difficulties with connections to the national grid.

Jack Ellerby, Friends Policy Officer responsible for energy said: "The development of two huge new greenfield sites on the West Cumbrian coast for new power stations was a step too far. National paper headlines of ‘Nuke-District' reflected the damage these sites would have done, not only to the landscape, but also to the Lake District brand upon which the local economy depends. The generation of new energy sources within Cumbria should not be a trade off with the spectacular landscape and natural environment."

Friends of the Lake District's objections were echoed by the Lake District National Park Authority, Cumbria Wildlife Trust and others organisations, individuals and local community groups.

The site north of the existing Sellafield site remains on DECC's list as a proposed site for a new nuclear power station.
 

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