Hinkley Point: French Government 'completely Committed' To Plant

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36063561

Considering that the construction of this much-needed infrastructure should have started 8 years ago, how much credence can we put in this latest PR exercise ?

This isn't a party-political point, but the award to build this plant should have been withdrawn years ago by our government and we should be building it ourselves. It should never have been given to the ruddy French in the first place. This is a complete farce.

[mushroom25]

given the flavour of your politics, support for Hinkley Point "C" isn't the stance I'd expected you to take.

Left wing and Green politics all say that the power station is not needed.

[mikey4444]

I am a big fan on nuclear power Mush, ever since my Science Master first took me to visit Hinkley Point C when I was in my teens. As far as I was concerned then, and still am today, it was the personification of the "white heat of technology"

At this rate, in the near future, we are going to come in from work, one dark evening in the winter, flip the light switch on, and nothing will happen. We need new generating power now, let alone in years to come.

On a related subject, if Port Talbot steel works is to be saved, it could be by converting the plant to make steel from recycled materials, which will require extra lecky.

This farce has gone on long enough.....the ruddy French should put up or shut up. All we have is empty promises.

[jomifl]

/it was the personification of the "white heat of technology"/
If you had seen the guys in the control room with their feet up on the control consoles with a cup of tea and ginger biccy in hand that might not have been the first thought to come to mind..
Nevertheless we do need them.

[ToraToraTora]

18 years ago you say, who was in Power then?

[mushroom25]

with the new interconnector cables now being laid across the channel, in a fraction of the time it'll take to build Hinkley "C" the french will be selling us their own nuclear-generated electrickery. so they've no incentive to act quickly. plus, there's more than 3 times the generating capacity of Hinkley "C" in approved plans for wind turbines, so the Brits also have no incentive to get their act together.

[jourdain2]

Oui ---- mais.....? Look, if the French government is committed to something - it gets done. (That was a full stop.) Public enquiries, surveys etc., etc. happen and still what the govt. wants gets done and pretty fast. I lived near the old route of the TGV from Poitiers to Bordeaux. New, faster route was needed, designed, under construction and jolly nearly finished in our area within 2 yrs.

They could still pull out, they don't really want to do it IMO.

[mikey4444]

Of course they don't Jordain ! Which is why our present Government should pull the plug on the deal so we can build it ourselves. It would provide much-needed employment and help to secure or energy needs for the future.

I am fed up with this deal being dealt a death by a thousand little cuts by the bloody French !