£24billion and counting! Lunacy of the biggest white elephant in Britain which costs as much as the Crossrail, Heathrow Terminal works and London 2012 Olympics put together

‘Visible from the hills above where I live in Somerset is the proposed site of one of the craziest, most worrying projects the government has put its hand to.

Ministers led by David Cameron want to allow the French state-owned energy company EDF to spend the best part of ten years building a new nuclear power plant next to an old one at Hinkley Point, Bridgewater, looking across the Bristol Channel to Wales, at a cost of more than £24billion.

This is equivalent to the combined costs of the vast Crossrail project in London, the revamping of Terminal 2 at Heathrow and the 2012 London Olympics, all put together. Indeed the cost of just this one power station promises to be as much as half the estimated £50 billion bill for of the HS2 high-speed rail link, the most expensive engineering project planned in Britain.’

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